Winner of the 2021 INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) Best Paper Award.
Rowan Clarke is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School. He received his BA in statistics and economics (honours), and MA in economics from the University of Cape Town. He has worked as a researcher and principal investigator with Innovations for Poverty Action, the INSEAD Randomized Controlled Trial Lab, Environment for Development, and as director of research with Nuru Energy, a social business. His interests are in strategy, entrepreneurship, and economic development with a focus on high-growth tech firms in areas such as poverty alleviation, financial inclusion, and renewable energy. He uses RCTs and A/B experimentation, econometrics, machine learning, and applied theory. His research has won multiple funding awards including DFID-Energia, Grand Challenges, International Growth Centre, INSEAD, and Wharton, as well as academic ones such as the INFORMS PSOR Best Paper Award.
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- 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
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- Uppari, Bhavani Shanker, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu, and Rowan P Clarke. "Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Evidence from a Structural Model and Field Experiments in Rwanda." International Growth Centre Working Paper. (R&R Management Science.) View Details
- Awards & Honors
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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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- Area of Study
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- economic development
- entrepreneurship
- experimentation
- innovation
- strategy
- diversity
- social enterprise
- sustainability
- energy
- financial services
- Africa
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