Winner of the 2022 INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES) Best Working Paper Award for “Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis” with Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, and Ioanna Popescu.
Rowan Clarke
Doctoral Student
Doctoral Student
Rowan Clarke is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School and affiliate of Tech For All within the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. His interests are in entrepreneurship, strategy, and artificial intelligence for economic development and environment. He focuses on tech companies and startups in areas such as fintech, poverty, gender, small businesses, and energy/environment. He uses field experiments, causal inference, and applied theory, and his research has won many large funding awards including DFID-Energia and Grand Challenges, as well as academic ones such as Best Paper Awards.
Rowan received his bachelors in statistics and economics, and masters in economics from the University of Cape Town. Prior to his PhD he gained experience working as a principal investigator with Innovations for Poverty Action, and as a director of research running randomized experiments with solar entrepreneurs in Africa. More: Website
Rowan received his bachelors in statistics and economics, and masters in economics from the University of Cape Town. Prior to his PhD he gained experience working as a principal investigator with Innovations for Poverty Action, and as a director of research running randomized experiments with solar entrepreneurs in Africa. More: Website
Rowan Clarke is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School and affiliate of Tech For All within the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. His interests are in entrepreneurship, strategy, and artificial intelligence for economic development and environment. He focuses on tech companies and startups in areas such as fintech, poverty, health, small businesses, and energy/environment. He uses field experiments, causal inference, and applied theory, and his research has won many large funding awards including DFID-Energia and Grand Challenges, as well as academic ones such as Best Paper Awards.
Rowan received his bachelors in statistics and economics, and masters in economics from the University of Cape Town. Prior to his PhD he gained experience working as a principal investigator with Innovations for Poverty Action, and as a director of research running randomized experiments with solar entrepreneurs in Africa. More: Website
Rowan received his bachelors in statistics and economics, and masters in economics from the University of Cape Town. Prior to his PhD he gained experience working as a principal investigator with Innovations for Poverty Action, and as a director of research running randomized experiments with solar entrepreneurs in Africa. More: Website
- Journal Articles
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- Uppari, Bhavani Shanker, Ioanna Popescu, Serguei Netessine, and Rowan P. Clarke. "A Smarter Way to Design Business Strategies to Serve the Poor." INSEAD Knowledge (October 5, 2023). View Details
- Uppari, Bhavani Shanker, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu, and Rowan P. Clarke. "Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online July 18, 2023.) View Details
- Klege, Rebecca, Martine Visser, Manuel Barron, and Rowan P. Clarke. "Competition and Gender in the Lab vs Field: Experiments from Off-grid Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs in Rural Rwanda." Art. 101662. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 91 (April 2021). View Details
- Barron, Manuel, Rowan P. Clarke, Amanda Elam, Rebecca Klege, Anita Shankar, and Martine Visser. "Gender and Entrepreneurship in the Renewable Energy Sector of Rwanda." Special Issue on Gender and Energy: Opportunities for All. Institute of Development Studies Bulletin 51, no. 1 (February 2020): 53–70. View Details
- Working Papers
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- Russel, Dominic, Claire Shi, and Rowan P. Clarke. "Revenue-Based Financing." SSRN Working Paper Series, October 2023. View Details
- Awards & Honors
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Winner of the 2021 INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) Best Paper Award.Nominated for the 2021 INFORMS Service Science Paper Award Competition.Finalist for the 2020/2021 POMS Applied Research Challenge for “Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Evidence From a Structural Model and Field Experiments in Rwanda” with Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, and Ioanna Popescu.Finalist for the 2020 INFORMS Decision Analysis Practice Award.
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