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REXBURG, Idaho (AP) - Getting a 34-year Harvard man to abandon one of the nation's most prestigious business schools for an Idaho church college seems like a task that would demand divine revelation. For Kim Clark, who left his post as Harvard Business School dean last week, it came down to the next best thing.
A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Clark took a call in May from Gordon Hinckley, the 95-year-old president of the Mormons. Hinckley asked the economist to head Brigham Young University-Idaho, which just five years ago was a two-year junior college.
"You have to appreciate what this is like," the 56-year-old Clark said. "We behold him (Hinckley) to be a prophet. Imagine yourself getting a call from Moses."
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