On July 20, 2017, ISM PhD candidate Manal Naboulsi successfully defended her dissertation titled “The Interface between Gender Processes and Family Business Succession in Family-Owned Businesses in Lebanon and the United States: A Comparative Case Study.” The defense jury was made up of Professor Daphne Halkias (adviser), Professor Michael Neubert (second examiner), and Professor César Baena (ISM’s Dean and Director of Doctoral Research). 
	
	
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