I am a PhD candidate in the strategy department at INSEAD. My research explores strategies of firm growth, primarily in the context of scaling entrepreneurial ventures. Across my projects I use a mix of empirical methods and mathematical models to study the relationships between growth, scale, and performance. I am on the academic job market in 2025/2026.

My job market paper studies how startups build up their commercial activities in the context of software firms whose technologies power the internet. In my other papers I develop empirical estimators for growth speed, separate out time compression diseconomies during early versus late growth, show the value of sequential attention during growth, and model how expansion multiplies firm-internal complexity.

CV

CV Prox 2510.pdf

Working papers

The Internal Dimensions of Growing Organizations: Activity Scale, Scope, and Startup Performance

Job market paper | Winner: Best PhD Paper at SMS 25

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2510 JMP Prox.pdf

Countering Corporate Complexity: How Integration and Expansion Drive Interdependence

with Phebo Wibbens | Reject & Resubmit at SMJ | Winner: Best Corporate Strategy Paper at SMS 24

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Time Compression in Startup Scaling

with Veronica Cappelli

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Smooth scaling? Optimal and Satisficing Growth Trajectories

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Contact

EMAIL

[email protected]

ADDRESS

Boulevard de Constance

77305 Fontainebleau

FRANCE

UNIVERSITY

Profile at INSEAD