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"You always have to judge where you are and what you can take on--it's an intuitive art," he says. "We knew we couldn't do three new regions of the world--that would be overreaching."
Huidekoper says, for example, that if the University had strictly adhered to its plan of five years ago, much less money would have gone to the now-hot field of information technology.
"If President [Charles W.] Eliot [Class of 1853] hadn't decided to turn a small college into a large university, we'd be Oberlin," he says.
One danger in managing such a large University is that the voice of the faculty--traditionally Harvard's governing body--will be drowned out by figureheads and bureaucrats.
"When I came in 1986, 'University-wide' used to mean the vice presidents and the president, and a large number of administrators," says Dennis F. Thompson, associate provost.