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...making a rare public pitch for Leadershipand Learning, a revolutionary effort torestructure the Business School's curriculum,McArthur traveled to Yale three years ago andreleased comments from a June 1992 reportsuggesting that the school was facing thepossibility of financial crisis and "flounderingmediocity...
That trip came the day before the release ofRudenstine's 83-page report on the results of theacademic planning process. The president hadlabored over the manuscript himself, andsome--including Boston Globe columnist David L.Warsh '66--suggested that McArthur hadintentionally timed his speech to overshadow thepresident...
...McArthur, however, says he has full confidencein the president's ability to effectively run theUniversity upon his return. But he warns that theHarvard community must be careful...
...looks a lot better than he did four monthsago, and the rest of us have to understand wecan't make endless demands on the poor bugger,"McArthur says. "When he came here it was likelanding on Normandy beach...it's this poor bastardgetting swept in from Princeton and landing on thebeach and he doesn't know anybody, but I think hecan put it in second gear...
During his term as dean, McArthur has built oneof the most prestigious learning institutions inthe world. Yet he is hardly set in his ways...