It's also what attracted S2G Ventures and The Yard, a fund comprised of Harvard alums that invest in companies with a connection to the university (in this case, the CFO is a Harvard graduate).
The handbook also offers advice on day-to-day practices that could help protect universities in the case of a lawsuit.
The court ruled in a 1988 case that the N.C.A.A., as a national organization not confined to any one state, was not a state actor, at least in the context of a disciplinary action against a state university, in that case, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
The Supreme Court ruled against the university in that case but upheld its law school's affirmative-action policy in a related case, Grutter v. Bolinger.
Top politicians are usually obsessives who have been surrounded by the same people for decades, since university or – in the case of Cameron and Johnson – since school.
"I tell all my clients that it is absolutely imperative that they spend a few weeks each year outside their own business and actively working in the marketplace, or in a university lab, in the case of technical people.
And Germany does not have elite schools or universities, which in the case of Britain and France has provided a reservoir of talent as well as a network to help former students make their way up.
Whether to take this risk, or the ones inherent in approaching university authorities about the case, is "an individual decision," Shamoo says, because young scientists who run afoul of a superior "can lose their career".
In this context, the public corporation and government are able to establish, acquire, or form joint-ventures with a public university in case the public is averse to joint-ventures between the public school and the private sector.
In a statement on Sunday, MIT president Rafael Reif said he had appointed a professor to review the university's involvement in the case.
Mr. Reif said M.I.T. planned to release those documents, with some information redacted, when it completed an investigation led by a computer science professor, Hal Abelson, into the university's role in the case.
