Conflicts of interest Outrageous fortune

摘要

Never look a gift horse in the mouth, goes the adage, and the University of Nottingham, in England, certainly did not. Last winter, when British American Tobacco (bat) offered the university £3.8m ($54m) to finance a centre for research on business ethics, with no strings attached, the university gratefully accepted. One of its academics, however, did not acquiesce so readily.