Presenters

Jonathan Clark

Dr. Jonathan Clark is interim department chair and professor of management at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Clark began serving a second stint as department chair in 2022, after serving in that role from 2018 to 2021 and as interim associate dean of undergraduate studies in 2021. He joined the UTSA faculty in 2015 after serving on the faculty at Penn State University, where he also served as executive director of the Master of Health Administration program. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard Business School, and a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. His undergraduate degree in economics is from Boston College.

Dr. Clark has research interests in leadership and strategic management, with specific interest in understanding how leaders and organizations create the conditions under which individuals, groups and organizations do their best collective work. To date, his work has addressed issues broadly related to strategic leadership, organization design and organizational learning, with a special emphasis on how these issues play out in the health care industry. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Leadership Quarterly, Organization Science, Management Science, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Production and Operations Management, Health Affairs, and Health Care Management Review, among other outlets.

Dr. Clark’s portfolio of teaching experience includes courses, seminars, and training programs focused on helping aspiring leaders and executives understand, practice, and cultivate leadership more effectively in their personal and professional lives. Prior to his career in academia, he worked in the consulting industry and helped to nurture two startups. He and his wife Deborah are the parents of three boys.