Kim B. Clark is the NAC Distinguished Professor of Management at the BYU Marriott School of Business.
Professor Clark received the BA, MA and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University. He joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School in 1978 and served as Dean of the Faculty from 1995 to 2005.
Professor Clark’s teaching and research at HBS focused on product development, and operations strategy, with particular attention to the role of senior leaders in creating outstanding performance in innovation, productivity and quality. His later work focused on modularity in design and the interaction of technological change and competition in industry evolution.
Professor Clark became Dean at HBS in 1995. In his work as Dean he articulated the school’s mission – educating leaders who make a difference in the world – and pursued initiatives in leadership and values, entrepreneurship, technology in learning and education, and international research and case writing.
In 2005 he left HBS to become the president of BYU-Idaho where he focused on pursuing the mission of the university to develop disciple-leaders with initiatives in a Christ-centered learning model, online education to increase access, and Pathway. Enrollment in BYU-Idaho programs expanded from 12,500 students in 2005 to over 25,000 during his service.
In April of 2015 he was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During his time in the Seventy he served as the Commissioner of the Church Educational System. He received emeritus status in 2019.
