About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the strategy area and Chazen Senior Scholar at Columbia Business School and a Senior Fellow at the Microsoft AI Economy Institute. My work explores the global startup scaling gap, in particular, investigating how local environments can both push startups toward suboptimal strategic paths, from the markets they target to the technologies they adopt, and make those paths harder to change once pursued. It draws inspiration from my prior policy work as a senior consultant and staff economist at the World Bank and White House and startup work as a co-founder, adviser, and board member. I earned my BA at Yale University, MPhil at the University of Cambridge, and PhD at Harvard Business School. I was born in Kyiv and grew up outside of Philadelphia.