Academic Life
Clark matriculated at Harvard University in 1967 as a pre-med major and left after his freshman year to serve the LDS Church as a missionary in Germany. Upon his return to the U.S., he enrolled at Brigham Young University. After he and his wife, Sue, married in the Salt Lake Temple in June 1971, Clark resumed his studies at Harvard, where he received B.A. (1974), MA (1977), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees in economics. Clark joined the Harvard faculty in 1978 and served as Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Business School from 1995 to 2005.
While a professor at the Harvard Business School, Clark's research focused on modularity in design and the integration of technology and competition in industry evolution—particularly within the computer industry. He has published several articles in the Harvard Business Review and other peer-reviewed academic journals. A few of his papers were co-authored with former HBS associate dean and current BYU-Hawaii President Steven C. Wheelwright.
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