Myron Henry Clark (July 25, 1881 – August 30, 1953) was an American

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, and director of the Labor-Management Institute at the

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, known as long active proponent in labor-management affairs.''The Rubber Age,'' Volumes 72-73, 1953, p. 838 He served as the 3rd president of the

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in the years 1939–1941.

Biography

Education and early career

Clark was born in

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in 1881, son of Charles Henry Clark and Abbie (Davis) Clark. After attending the

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in Concord, Massachusetts, he obtained his BSc from the

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in 1903. After his graduation Clark joined the U. S. Rubber Co. in 1903. He worked his way up to general manager of the Footwear Division, and left in 1922. As head of the footwear division, he had introduced centralized hiring offices at boot and shoe plants. Next, at the

he was one of the co-founders of the Labor-Management Institute, where he was long standing president until the early 1950s. One of his accomplishments was the successful establishing of a labor-management cooperation for U. S. Rubber and the Johns Manville Corp. In 1951 he retired from the

Further career and honours

In the 1930s Clark also had founded Myron Clark Associates, management consultants in Boston, where he was management consultant and president the next decennia. In the 1940s Clark became General Works Manager at the R. Wallace & Sons in Wallingford, Connecticut. After turning 65 he kept working as management consultant. In 1952, at the age of 71, he was appointed director of the Productivity and Technical Assistance division of the

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in Washington, D.C. Clark had been member of the

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since 1913. He served as president of the

in the years 1939-1941 as successor of

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, and was succeeded by Keith Louden.

Selected publications

* M. H. Clark, J. P. Kottcamp, and Eli L. Oliver. ''Development and operation of joint management-labor committees,'' New York, July 22, 1942.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. B. Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series
'' 1942. p. 561. * Myron H. Clark. "Organizing a war production drive." in: ''Manufacturing Series,'' American Management Association. Nr. 135–150, 1942. p. 3

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Myron Henry 1881 births 1953 deaths American chemical engineers American business executives Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni University of Connecticut faculty People from Bedford, Massachusetts Concord-Carlisle High School alumni 20th-century American chemists 20th-century American engineers