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Dr. Brent Clark

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Dr. Brent B Clark

  • Associate Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Franchising
  • Management, Associate Professor
email:
bbclark@unomaha.edu
office:
MH  303F
office phone:
402.554.2643
personal website:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jQdCsOgAAAAJ&hl=en

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General Information

Biography

Prior to entering academia, Brent spent 5 years in industry working as an actuary at Lincoln Financial Group, a financial analyst at Zions Bancorporation, and a program analyst at Orbital ATK. He also taught Spanish for 2.5 years.

Teaching Interests

Brent teaches Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship.

Research Interests

Brent's primary research involves the impact of technology on decision makers and organizations. He also researches entrepreneurial uncertainty and strategic judgment. His work has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Business and Psychology, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and others.

Service Summary

Brent is an active participant in the Academy of Management (AOM) and the Strategic Management Society (SMS). He serves on the editorial review board for AMR, serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Franchising (CIEF) and a member of the Technology and Educational Resources Committee (TERC). He also serves on the Omaha Chamber of Commerce Builder Council that promotes and coordinates Startups within Omaha and the surrounding region.

Education

BS, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Statistics, 2004

MBA, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, Finance, 2008

Ph D, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, Business Administration, 2013

Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity

Selected Publications

Packard, Mark, Clark, Brent. 2020. On the Mitigability of Uncertainty and the Choice between Predictive and Non-Predictive Strategy, Academy of Management Review, 45, 4, 766-786.

Packard, Mark, Clark, Brent. 2020. Probability Logic Fails in Immitigable Uncertainty, But Strategic Logic Does Not, Academy of Management Review, 45, 3, 704-707.

Packard, Mark, Clark, Brent. 2020. Mitigating versus Managing Epistemic and Aleatory Uncertainty, Academy of Management Review, 45, 4, 872-876.

Clark, Brent, Robert, Christopher, Hampton, Stephen. 2016. The technology effect: How perceptions of technology drive excessive optimism, Journal of Business & Psychology, 31, 1, 87-102.

Packard, Mark, Clark, Brent, Klein, Peter. 2017. Dynamic Judgment, Uncertainty Transitions, and the Entrepreneurial Process, Organization Science, 28, 5, 840-856.