Aya Chacar

Aya Chacar is a professor of business in the United States. She is currently the Ingersoll Rand Chaired Professor at Florida International University.[1]

Biography

Chacar was born in Lebanon where she studied engineering at the Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Beyrouth (E.S.I.B.). She earned a master's in business administration degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute .[2] Chacar completed her doctoral studies in Strategy and Organization at UCLA.[2] She began her career at the London Business School then joined Florida International University (FIU) in 2003.[3]

Chacar has studied and written several papers about Major League Baseball, where she has studied how players are traded and how that has affected the business.[4] She has also studied effects of industry factors on innovation in the chemical industry.[5]

In 2012, she was named to the chaired position of the Ingersoll Rand Professorship in International Business at FIU.[6] She served a 5-year term as a Chairwoman and a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management starting in 2014.[7] She currently sits on the board of directors of Children of Lebanon.

References
  1. "Aya Chacar". Florida International University. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  2. "Aya Chacar, Florida International University". Strategic Management Society. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  3. Kent, Cindy (December 10, 2003). "PR Firm Gets Sales Director". South Florida Sun Sentinel. p. 86. Retrieved December 5, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. Sortal, Nick (October 20, 2003). "Professor Rips Baseball Bosses". South Florida Sun Sentinel. p. 44. Retrieved December 5, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Research Round Up: Working Paper Summaries". Business Strategy Review. 10 (2): 72–75. Summer 1999. doi:10.1111/1467-8616.00105.
  6. "Faculty Notes: August 2012". BizNews. August 29, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  7. "Faculty Notes: October 2014". BizNews. November 18, 2014. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
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