She teaches courses in strategic management and family business at the undergraduate and graduate level. She received her PhD in business administration from Arizona State University and MA degree in mathematics from the University of South Florida. She joined the University in 2003 and has published in the areas of corporate governance and innovation management. Her more recent work focuses on family firms as a unique form of ownership. Her research examines how family firms differ from non family firms in terms of governance, compensation, innovation, diversification, corporate social responsibility and risk propensity. Before entering academia she worked as a research analyst for Critikon and more recently she has served on the advisory boards of ChronicDB, Rafinco and the Council for Accountable Advertising.