Kim Bryce Clark (born March 20, 1949) is an American scholar, educator, and religious leader who has been a general authority of

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(LDS Church) since April 2015, and was the church's seventeenth Commissioner of Church Education from 2015 to 2019.. He served previously as the 15th president of

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from 2005 to 2015, and as the dean of the

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(HBS) from 1995 to 2005, where he was also the George F. Baker Professor of Business Administration.

Early life and education

Kim B. Clark was born on March 20, 1949, in

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, Utah. He and his family lived in Salt Lake City until 1960, when his father's new job required them to move to

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. Clark matriculated at

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in 1967 as a pre-med major and left after his freshman year to serve as a

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for the LDS Church in

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. Following his mission, Clark enrolled for a time at

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. In 1971, he 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 HBS from 1995 to 2005. As a professor at HBS, 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

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and peer-reviewed academic journals. A few of his papers were co-authored with former HBS associate dean and former BYU-Hawaii president Steven C. Wheelwright. With a variety of co-authors, Clark published an important series of studies on technological innovation. The organizational linkages, or integration, required to accomplish an innovation is a thread that runs through these studies. These insights culminated in his book with Carliss Baldwin, “Design Rules: The Power of Modularity,” which explores the rules for integrating components that shaped innovation in the computer industry as well as many others. His various articles and books have been cited more than 20,000 times according to Google Scholar. In 2005, Clark left HBS when LDS Church president Gordon B. Hinckley appointed him president of BYU–Idaho. On January 27, 2015, it was announced that effective April 13, 2015, Clark would be succeeded by Clark Gilbert as the president of BYU–Idaho.

LDS Church service and family

Clark has served in various assignments in the LDS Church, including

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, scoutmaster, elders quorum president,

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teacher, and counselor in a stake (Latter Day Saints), stake mission presidency. From 2007 to 2014, Clark served as an area seventy in the church's Idaho

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. On April 4, 2015, Clark was sustained as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. On August 1, 2015, he succeeded Paul V. Johnson as the Commissioner of Church Education. He was designated as an emeritus general authority in October 2019.Eyre, Aubrey
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'', October 5, 2019. Retrieved on March 26, 2020. Clark and his wife, Sue, have seven children.

Awards

* Eagle Scout Award by the

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by the

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*Newcomen-Harvard Award for Best Paper Published in the Business History Review (1994)

Works

* * * * Baldwin, C.Y. & Clark, K.B., 2000. Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

References

External links

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General Authorities and General Officers: Elder Kim B. Clark
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