Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer teaching in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. She currently teaches first year TOM (Technology Operations Management) and first year LCA (Leadership and Corporate Accountability) students. Mrs. Wing is also an active participant in teaching and chairing Executive Education Programs that specialize in operations and family office work. Christina currently gives many speeches on leadership and understanding the different chapters of your life and has a passion for researching tradeoffs. She firmly believes that you can have it all, just not all at once.
Prior to teaching at Harvard Business School, Christina held a variety of roles within the Finance and General Management fields. She was most recently President and CEO of a family office where she oversaw a team of people and assets within real estate, art, collectables, private investments and philanthropic activities. Mrs. Wing’s prior experience included being a founder of Wing O’Donnell Ventures, an independent financial consulting and investment advisory practice. Christina was the CFO and head of operations at a startup venture formed by several of her HBS classmates that she joined in the early stages. She began her career in equities and energy investment banking, where she worked at Goldman Sachs and Kidder Peabody. Notably, Christina spent a year in Australia working on the privatization of the utility industry. She has served on many company boards.
A native of The Woodlands, Texas she graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1993 with a BBA in Finance and Organizational Behavior and Business Policy and she also earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1998.
Mrs. Wing is a very active participant in several charitable organizations. She is currently on the board of The Steppingstone Foundation, Operation Grateful Nation and Aspen Junior Golf. Christina resides in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts with her husband Tad and their three children.
In 2019, Bill Cummings, founder of Cummings Properties and Cummings Foundation and billionaire signer of the Giving Pledge, is winding down his roles at his company and foundation. How should the management move the company forward?
Wing, Christina R., Robert F. White, and Michael Norris. "Bill Cummings: The Cummings Way." Harvard Business School Case 619-038, May 2019.
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Wing, Christina R., and Marco Iansiti. "The Boston Beer Company: Managing the Bullwhip." Harvard Business School Case 619-021, October 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
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This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned that the business might be affected by rivalry between his four sons after he died, Maurice set up a trust in 2002 that designated Robert as his successor, and in May of 2009, Maurice revised the trust, granting Robert full control of the board as well. In June 2009, Maurice Fadel passed away, and according to the provisions of the trust, Robert became the chairman and CEO of ABC for a period of five years, with the possibility of extending his term by an additional three years on condition that he had the support of at least one of his brothers. In his new role, Robert set two main goals for the company. First, he wanted to turn ABC into a professionally managed organization at all levels. Second, he wanted to invest in long-term projects that would expand the business. Actualizing his vision was not an easy task given the family conflicts and Lebanon’s economic and political environment. However, Robert achieved both of his goals by the end of his eighth year, in 2017, when he stepped down as ABC’s CEO. The dilemmas at that point were whether he should appoint someone from outside the Fadel family as ABC’s new CEO, and whether he should step down from the board chairmanship.
Wing, Christina R., Esel Y. Cekin, and Samer Al-Rachedy. "From Beirut With Love (A)." Harvard Business School Case 619-024, September 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
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