Overview
The papers of Harvard Business School professor Kim B. Clark include correspondence, presentations, research, writings, teaching, and audiovisual materials.
Dates
- Creation: 1970-1995
Creator
- Clark, Kim B. (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials mostly in English, some in Japanese.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Materials stored onsite. This collection requires a secondary registration form. Please contact specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu for more information on access procedures and reproduction services.
Restricted material has been identified in this collection. All folder titles of restricted material have been redacted.
Conditions Governing Use
In many cases, Baker Library does not hold the copyright to the materials in its collections. Researchers are responsible for determining copyright status and identifying and contacting any copyright holders for permission to reproduce or publish content from collections. Baker Library staff have included the names of third-party copyright holders at the folder and item level when known.
Extent
58 linear feet (114 boxes, 1 carton)The papers of HBS professor Kim B. Clark consist of teaching materials, research, writings, presentations, correspondence, undergraduate and graduate school work, consulting materials, printed materials, and audiovisual materials from 1970-1995. Clark's papers do not reflect his deanship papers.
Clark's HBS teaching materials consist of case research and teaching notes for classes he taught in the Technology and Operations Management Unit (TOM). The materials includes HBS case and teaching note drafts, hand-written notes, company information, and correspondence collected to publish and teach HBS cases.
Clark's writing and research consists chiefly of material coming out of his books, articles, and working papers. There are drafts, interviews, computer-generated data, company information, articles, notes, proposals, and correspondence. Clark's research was concentrated on the evolution of technology and its role in creating competitive opportunities and constraints in business. His economics research focused on institutions, unions, and productivity and through this he concluded that management played a critical role in determining the performance of manufacturing plants. The majority of his research was centered around two projects related to the automobile industry. Auto Project I eventually became the book, Industrial Renaissance: Producing a Competitive Future for America by William J. Abernathy, Clark and Alan Kantrow (Basic Books, 1983). At various times in its development it was called, "Wheels of Change: The New Industrial Competition" and "the Productivity Project." Auto Project II finally became Product Development Performance: Strategy, Organization and Management in the World Auto Industry by Clark and Takahino Fujimoto (HBS Press, 1991). Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization by Robert H. Hayes, Steven C. Wheelwright and Clark. (The Free Press, 1988) was also referred to as, "Developing and Managing Technology," and "Hayes-Wheelwright Project."
Presentation materials consist of overheads, slides, draft speeches, reports, papers, correspondence, notes, agendas, and other material related to Clark's involvement in conferences, committees, and presentations given at companies he consulted for. Correspondence, mainly outgoing letters from Clark to colleagues, HBS professors, friends, and business executives touch on presentations given, salutations, and thoughts on HBS cases and research conducted. There are a small number of economics and mathematics class notebooks and notes kept by Clark while he was undergraduate and graduate student at Harvard, 1970-1976.
Biographical / Historical
Kim B. Clark (1949-) is the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus and served as the Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Business School (HBS). Clark was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1949. He received the B.A. (1974), M.A. (1977), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees in economics from Harvard University. In 1978 he joined HBS and taught Production in Operations Management, Management of Operations, and Management Policy in the Technology and Operations Management Unit (TOM). In 1983, Clark was appointed associate professor and taught Developing and Managing Technology. In 1986, Clark was appointed Professor of Business Administration. He became the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration in 1989 and chaired the ToM Unit until being named Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Business School in 1995.
Professor Clark's research focused on modularity in design and the integration of technology and competition in industry evolution, with a particular focus on the computer and automobile industries. He has written or co-written numerous books, articles, working papers, and HBS cases.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in eight series: I: HBS Teaching Records; II. Research and Writing; III. Presentations and Conferences; IV. Consulting records; V. Correspondence; VI. Undergraduate and Graduate Student Work; VII. Printed Material; VIII. Audiovisual Material.
Physical Location
ARCFA
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred in 1993 (A-93-23) and cartons transferred from Faculty Storage Account in 2006.
Processing Information
012314548
Creator
- Clark, Kim B. (Person)
- Author
- Baker Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- bak01284
Repository Details
Part of the Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School Repository
Baker Library Special Collections and Archives holds unique resources that focus on the evolution of business and industry, as well as the records of the Harvard Business School, documenting the institution's development over the last century. These rich and varied collections support research in a diverse range of fields such as business, economic, social and cultural history as well as the history of science and technology.
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