Kim Clark Harvard Business School career arc

Tom's contemporary at Harvard (he was at HBS while Tom was at MIT). Cub Scout father (built the bad Pinewood Derby track). Paid honoraria by AISI to advise on decisions, including the Armco case which he characterized as a "good decision." Eventually Dean of HBS. The personal-history anchor for Tom's MIT-vs-HBS thesis.

There's a guy Kim Clark. Anybody know who Kim Clark is? Kim Clark was Dean of the Harvard Business School. Kim was a graduate student in labor economics at Harvard when I was a graduate student here at MIT. Our wives were sort of best friends. His oldest son was born about two weeks apart from my oldest son. When they were about eight or nine years old, I had them in Cub Scouts when I was a Cub Scout den father. When Bryce Clark was about ten years old he knocked my son Matthew's two front teeth out twice in six weeks. Bryce was sort of a bully and Matt was sort of a wuss. We had taught Matt you don't fight, and he came home in about fourth grade in tears, because he was being bullied and he wouldn't fight back. When they were bullying him, I said, well, fight back, Matt. And he said, but you told me not to. I thought, well yeah, you're right, I told you not to. There are these conflicts that you run into in life.