Aya Chacar is a professor of business in the

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. She is currently the

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Chaired Professor at

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Biography

Chacar was born in

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

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

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. Chacar completed her doctoral studies in Strategy and Organization at

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. She began her career at the

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then joined

(FIU) in 2003. Chacar has studied and written several papers about

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, where she has studied how players are traded and how that has affected the business. She has also studied effects of industry factors on innovation in the

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. In 2012, she was named to the chaired position of the Ingersoll Rand Professorship in International Business at FIU. She served a 5-year term as a Chairwoman and a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Management Division of the

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starting in 2014. She currently sits on the board of directors of Children of Lebanon.

References

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