Scientific researchers on campus increasingly worry that commercial sponsorship skews conclusions and restricts data sharing. Boards can help balance conflicting interests. This article discusses how boards of trustees and all leaders at universities and nonprofit research institutes can set the balance in accepting privately funded research contracts, monitor university-industry partnerships, and promote science that is in everyone's interest. The author argues that, rather than embrace disclosure as the antidote to conflicts of interest, all of higher education should start adopting principles that prevent or prohibit the more egregious cases. Ways must be found to retain the integrity of our research institutions against the encroaching commercialization and conflict of interest.