Henry Wallace Clark

Henry Wallace Clark
Henry W. Clark, 1959
Born(1880-07-27)July 27, 1880
DiedApril 7, 1948(1948-04-07) (aged 67)
OccupationPresident
EmployerWallace Clark & Co.

Henry Wallace Clark (July 27, 1880 – April 7, 1948) was an American consulting engineer, known for popularizing the work of Henry Gantt with his 1922 work "The Gantt chart; a working tool of management".[1][2]

In 1934 he was awarded the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal by the ASME.[3] A year after his death the Wallace Clark Award was initiated, an award for distinguished contribution to scientific management in the international field.

  1. ^ Jain, Anant Singh, and Sheik Meeran. "Deterministic job-shop scheduling: Past, present and future." European journal of operational research 113.2 (1999): 390-434.
  2. ^ Koskela, Lauri. An exploration towards a production theory and its application to construction. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 2000.
  3. ^ Lester Robert Bittel, Muriel Albers Bittel (1978), Encyclopedia of professional management . p. 456