Advisory Board Member Elizabeth Clark
Massachusetts Financial Educators Council

Elizabeth Clark is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Harvard Business School (HBS), where she oversees a group of 285 information technology (IT) professionals committed to helping advance the teaching, learning, research, and administrative mission of HBS. As CIO, she plays a critical role in strategically driving forward HBS’s broad, ambitious technology aspirations. With 25 years of experience in higher education IT, Advisory Board Member Elizabeth Clark has served in a number of leadership roles and spearheaded countless campus-wide initiatives spanning the academic enterprise.

Involved locally and nationally with nonprofit associations that advance higher education through the use of information technology, Dr. Clark regularly speaks on topics including IT in higher education, strategy and innovation, change management, and diversifying IT organizations; and she has published on women in IT and diversity in higher education. For example, she is author of the 2013 research report Gender Diversity among Higher Education CIOs, published by the Educause Center for Analysis and Research. She holds a PhD from Boston College, an MSW from Boston University, and a BA from the University of Massachusetts.

A dynamic leader with extensive experience building stakeholder relationships and managing organizational change, Dr. Clark is a highly results-oriented professional with demonstrated skills to quickly synthesize complex information to support decision-making and overall objectives of executive leadership. Her competence at building relationships with stakeholders by obtaining and incorporating their feedback is well-recognized. Dr. Clark is known as a change agent who builds programs from scratch to drive institutional transformation. Her innovative leadership has led to high achievements in the critical areas of instructional technology and design; and online/hybrid learning and working.

Selected members of the Massachusetts Financial Educators Council Advisory Board are individuals who support us in our commitment to widely spread financial wellness resources across the state of Massachusetts. They share our goal to donate financial wellness programming at the community level in initiatives that can be sustained and taken to scale.

Board Members who pass the rigorous selection criteria are professionals with a demonstrated commitment to building financial wellness in their communities. Individuals with the following traits are considered: