In Harvard Can We Trust?

Rebuilding trust was a key topic at the meeting last week between the Harvard Allston Work Team (faculty appointed by President Faust) and the Harvard Allston Task Force (Allston & Brighton residents & business owners appointed by Mayor Menino). If you are interested in a discussion of trust, where it comes from, and how to create it, this Opinionator conversation between David Brooks and Dick Cavett is a good read. Brooks's definition below seems like a pretty good one with some relevance to the Harvard/Allston relationship.

In What Can We Trust? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
"I’d say that trust is about reciprocity. About establishing a pattern of communication and then cooperative volleys that get coated by emotional and moral commitment."
http://www.amazon.com/Rules-Break-Laws-Follow-Short-Termism/dp/0470227540
http://www.rulesandlaws.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Francis-Fukuyama/dp/0029109760

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