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 is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School, and affiliate of the Tech For All Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard University. He received his bachelors in statistics and economics, and masters in economics from the University of Cape Town. He has worked as a researcher and principal investigator with Innovations for Poverty Action, the INSEAD RCT Lab, Environment for Development, and as director of research and consultant with social businesses. His interests are in entrepreneurial strategy, digitization/innovation, and economic development with a focus on high-growth tech firms in areas such as poverty, small businesses, health, financial technology, gender, and energy/environment. He uses field experiments and A/B experimentation, econometrics, machine learning, and applied theory. His research has won multiple large funding awards including DFID-Energia, Grand Challenges, International Growth Centre, as well as academic ones such as INFORMS Best Paper Awards (PSOR and TIMES). More info: Website
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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
- Working Papers
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- 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." SSRN Working Paper Series, January 2023. (Accepted Management Science.) 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.
- Additional Information
- Area of Study
- Areas of Interest
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- digital economy
- economic development
- entrepreneurship
- experimentation
- strategy
- diversity
- emerging markets
- sustainability
- energy
- financial services
- Africa
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