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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio to William Allen Clark and Mary Ann Clark (born Rankin), Clark graduated in 1902 from the University of Cincinnati.
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After graduation Clark started his career as assistant manager at the Machine Tool Company of Cincinnati, and spend one year in the Orient. From 1910 to 1917 he was employed by the Remington Typewriter Company, where he was private secretary to the President. and ended up as office manager. Here Clark met Henry Gantt, who had reorganized the Remington Typewriter factory at Ilion, New York in 1910.
From 1919 to 1920 Clark was staff engineer at the Half-Life Gantt Company.
He became a "disciple of Henry Gantt", who work in the tradition of Frederick Tayler and the Scientific management. In 1920 Clark founded his own management consulting company Wallace Clark & Company in New York, specialized in international management.
lieutenant grew with offices London, Berlin Prague, Warsaw, Geneva and Athens. Among his employees was Walter Polakov, who had launching his own consulting company in 1915.
In the 1950s the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) initiated the annual Wallace Clark Medal for distinguished contribution to scientific management in the international field
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