Teaching
Making ideas that matter feel useful.
My goal as a teacher is for students to leave class feeling like they learned something that matters — not a list of abstract terms to memorize, but ideas about leadership, motivation, teams, and decision-making that show up in their own lives and future careers.
The Course
BMGT 364 · Managing People and Organizations
A foundational management course for junior and senior undergraduates at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. I served as sole instructor in Spring 2025 (in-person) and Summer 2025 (online), covering twelve weeks of core OB topics from personality and motivation through leadership, power, and organizational change.
Spring 2025
3.65 / 4
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Summer 2025
3.60 / 4
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How I Teach
Active Engagement
Classes mix short lectures, small-group discussion, and applied activities. Each topic opens with a hook — an exercise, case, or scenario — so students feel why a concept matters before we analyze it formally.
Structured Learning
Pre-work sparks curiosity and surfaces assumptions; post-work asks students to reflect and apply. Learning builds cumulatively rather than episodically.
Transparency & Openness
Clear expectations, accessible communication, and consistent fairness. Students should always know what I expect of them, what they can expect of me, and how each assignment ties to the goals of the course.
What Students Say
"Professor Clark does an amazing job connecting topics to real world scenarios and not just having us read from the textbook. He makes a course that is otherwise fairly dull and makes it truly exciting and a valuable part of one's education."
"Was very engaging in class and made an environment where everyone felt comfortable participating and wanted to participate, which enhanced my ability to learn."
"Professor Clark genuinely cares about this subject and our ability to learn it. He wanted us to be able to not only learn the material but also connect it to our everyday lives."
"He was very understanding of each student, trying to adapt to people's needs especially in a virtual environment."
"Professor Clark explains things well and makes coming to class fun and interesting. His use of videos, lectures, teamwork, and especially case studies allowed the class to not get boring and ensured I was engaged."
Courses I'm Prepared to Teach
Foundations of organizational behavior, leadership, motivation, teams, decision making, power and influence, organizational change, negotiations, diversity and inclusion, and human resource management. Given my research background, I would also be excited to teach entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, and new venture teams, as well as doctoral methods seminars in experimental design, scale development, and multilevel analysis.