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 will be on the academic job market in the fall of 2025.

My job market paper studies how uncertainty impacts the effectiveness of growth in the context of software startups whose technologies power the internet. In my other papers I develop empirical estimators for growth speed, show the value of sequential attention during growth, and model how expansion multiplies firm-internal complexity.

CV

Academic CV Prox.pdf

Working papers

Scaling the Weakest Link: When Growth Limits Startup Performance

Job market paper

Rigid Synergies: A Simulation of Growth-Driven Interdependency

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

Smooth scaling? Optimal and Satisficing Growth Trajectories

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Contact

EMAIL

constantin.prox@insead.edu

ADDRESS

Boulevard de Constance

77305 Fontainebleau

FRANCE

UNIVERSITY

Profile at INSEAD