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. ^ a b "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.