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, 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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- 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. "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.
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- Area of Study
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- artificial intelligence
- economic development
- entrepreneurship
- experimentation
- strategy
- diversity
- emerging markets
- sustainability
- energy
- financial services
- Africa
- Asia
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