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Rowan Clarke

Rowan Clarke

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Rowan Clarke is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School, Chief AI Science Advisor, and affiliate of the ‘Tech For All’ lab within the Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. He received his bachelors in statistics and economics, and masters in economics from the University of Cape Town. He has worked as a principal investigator with Innovations for Poverty Action, and as a director of research. His interests are in strategy/entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence/digitization, in emerging markets with a focus on tech firms in areas such as poverty, gender, health, financial technology, small businesses, and energy/environment. He uses field experiments and A/B tests, causal AI, and applied theory. His research has won many large funding awards including DFID-Energia and Grand Challenges, as well as academic ones such as Best Paper Awards (INFORMS). More info: Website   

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Journal Articles
Journal Articles

  • 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
Working Papers

  • 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
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Rowan Clarke is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School, Chief AI Science Advisor, and affiliate of the ‘Tech For All’ lab within the Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. He received his bachelors in statistics and economics, and masters in economics from the University of Cape Town. He has worked as a principal investigator with Innovations for Poverty Action, and as a director of research. His interests are in strategy/entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence/digitization, in emerging markets with a focus on tech firms in areas such as poverty, gender, health, financial technology, small businesses, and energy/environment. He uses field experiments and A/B tests, causal AI, and applied theory. His research has won many large funding awards including DFID-Energia and Grand Challenges, as well as academic ones such as Best Paper Awards (INFORMS). More info: Website   

Journal Articles
  • 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
  • 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
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.
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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Area of Study
  • Strategy
Areas of Interest
  • artificial intelligence
  • economic development
  • entrepreneurship
  • experimentation
  • strategy
  • Additional Topics
  • diversity
  • emerging markets
  • sustainability
  • Industries
  • energy
  • financial services
  • Geographies
  • Africa
  • Asia
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Area of Study

Strategy

Areas of Interest

artificial intelligence
economic development
entrepreneurship
experimentation
strategy
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Additional Topics

diversity
emerging markets
sustainability

Industries

energy
financial services

Geographies

Africa
Asia
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