Conflict of Interest and Commitment
Source: https://conduct.mit.edu/conflict-interest-and-commitment/ Parent: https://conduct.mit.edu/
It is the policy of the Institute that its officers, faculty, staff, and others acting on its behalf have the obligation to avoid ethical, legal, financial, or other conflicts of interest and to ensure that their activities and interests do not conflict with their obligations to the Institute or its welfare. Accordingly, members and officers of the Corporation, Institute senior officers, and other members of the staff in a position to make decisions favoring one or another outside interest must annually acknowledge in writing their knowledge of the Institute’s relevant policies on conflict of interest and conflict of commitment.
For Institute senior officers and other members of the staff, this includes Section 4.4 Conflict of Interest, Section 7.12 Conflict of Commitment, and the Institute’s guidance on outside activities. Such senior officers and staff must either affirm that they have no interest, direct or indirect, in conflict with the Institute’s interest, or disclose any interests that have the potential for a real or perceived conflict to the Institute on a rolling basis, as they occur throughout the year. Members of the Faculty should provide similar information regarding their outside professional activities to the Institute on a rolling basis, as they occur throughout the year, in compliance with Section 4.4 Conflict of Interest, Section 7.12 Conflict of Commitment, and the Institute’s [guidance on outside activities.](https://coi.mit.edu/coc/opa-guidance)
MIT Policies and Procedures Section 4.4: Conflict of Interest\ MIT Policies and Procedures Section 4.5: Outside Professional Activities\ MIT Policies and Procedures Section 5.2: Sponsored Research Staff Appointments\ MIT Policies and Procedures Section 5.3: Academic Research Staff Appointments\ MIT Policies and Procedures Section 5.4: Reporting Outside Activities and Interests\ MIT Policies and Procedures Section 6.1: Administrative Staff Appointments
MIT Policies and Procedures Section 7.12: Conflict of Commitment
In addition, federal agencies that support research, for example, the National Science Foundation and the Public Health Service, are concerned about conflicts of interest in federally funded research and have implemented regulations designed to cause institutions to identify and manage or eliminate potential conflicts of interest.