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Christina R. Wing

Christina R. Wing

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

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Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer teaching in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Christina primarily researches topics surrounding families in business and has created a course titled Demystifying Families in Business, which covers family dynamics, operating companies, family offices and legacy opportunities. She co-chairs the executive education program, Families in Business and teaches family office and HBS/Young Presidents’ Organization programs.

Christina also teaches first-year Technology Operations Management (TOM) and Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) courses. She gives speeches on topics related to families in business, leadership and understanding the different chapters of life. She firmly believes that you can have it all, just not all at once.

Christina is a co-founder of Wingspan Legacy Partners, an advisory firm for families and founders. Wingspan takes a holistic approach, listening and advising the family, the family business, the family wealth and family legacy. Christina believes families have a disproportionate ability to affect society, and with the correct leadership, they can be global leaders.

Prior to teaching at HBS and creating Wingspan, 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. Christina was in finance and operations at a startup venture formed by several of her HBS classmates that she joined in the early stages. She began her career focusing on equities and energy investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Kidder Peabody.

Christina is a senior advisor at Crestview Partners, a private equity firm focused on the middle market.

Christina is on the board of ambassadors of The Steppingstone Foundation, an organization providing educational opportunities to under-served children.

A native of The Woodlands, Texas, Christina graduated from Southern Methodist University with a B.B.A. in finance and organizational behavior and business policy. She also earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She currently lives in Chestnut Hill with her husband and three children. Christina is passionate about her family, dogs, friends, students, family clients and golf.

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Cases and Teaching Materials
Cases and Teaching Materials

  • Wing, Christina R., and Alpana Thapar. "Esas Group: Investing Together, Staying Together." Harvard Business School Case 623-027, September 2022. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Carlton Burrell Jr., Chika-Dike Nwokike, and Abby Patrick. "Sixty Years of Sylvia’s." Harvard Business School Case 623-018, July 2022. (Revised October 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and John Masko. "The Boston Beer Company (B): Growth and Uncertainty." Harvard Business School Supplement 622-051, September 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Saham Group: It's In the Genes." Harvard Business School Case 621-069, January 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Esel Çekin. "From Beirut with Love (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 622-021, August 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Suraj Srinivasan, and Esel Çekin. "Family Matters: Governance at the Zamil Group." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 622-022, August 2021. (Revised March 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Alpana Thapar. "It's All About Family: Esas Group." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 622-023, July 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and David Lane. "Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 622-016, July 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and John Masko. "Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 621-109, May 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and David Lane. "Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners." Harvard Business School Case 621-065, March 2021. (Revised June 2021.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R. "The Gauthier Family: To Sell or Not to Sell?" Harvard Business School Case 621-099, March 2021. (Revised July 2021.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and John Masko. "Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 621-018, July 2020. (Revised November 2020.) View Details
  • Hsieh, Nien-he, Christina R. Wing, and John Masko. "Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-091, February 2020. View Details
  • Hsieh, Nien-he, and Christina R. Wing. "Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 620-102, February 2020. View Details
  • Hsieh, Nien-hê, Christina R. Wing, Emilie Fournier, and Anna Resman. "Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 619-039, February 2019. (Revised February 2020.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Charles Richards, and Vicki Morton. "Demystifying Families in Business: Module 3—The Family Office." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-048, October 2019. (Revised July 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Inakshi Sobti. "Thermax—Changing of the Guard." Harvard Business School Case 620-043, October 2019. (Revised February 2020.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R. "Sopra Banking Software: Can a French Fintech Succeed in the U.S.?" Harvard Business School Case 620-004, September 2019. (Revised July 2021.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Alpana Thapar. "It's All About Family: Esas Group." Harvard Business School Case 620-010, September 2019. (Revised August 2021.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Madeline Keulen, and Vicki Morton. "Demystifying Families in Business: Module 2 - The Operating Company." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-037, August 2019. (Revised July 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Madeline Keulen, and Vicki Morton. "Demystifying Families in Business: Module 1 - The Family." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-031, August 2019. (Revised July 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Madeline Keulen. "Demystifying Families in Business." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 620-030, August 2019. (Revised July 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Suraj Srinivasan, and Esel Çekin. "Family Matters: Governance at the Zamil Group." Harvard Business School Case 620-009, August 2019. (Revised March 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Robert F. White, and Michael Norris. "Bill Cummings: The Cummings Way." Harvard Business School Case 619-038, May 2019. (Revised February 2020.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Marco Iansiti. "The Boston Beer Company (A): New CEO." Harvard Business School Case 619-021, October 2018. (Revised September 2021.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Esel Y. Cekin, and Samer Al-Rachedy. "From Beirut With Love (B): The Last Judgment." Harvard Business School Supplement 619-027, September 2018. View Details
  • 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.) View Details
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Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer teaching in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Christina primarily researches topics surrounding families in business and has created a course titled Demystifying Families in Business, which covers family dynamics, operating companies, family offices and legacy opportunities. She co-chairs the executive education program, Families in Business and teaches family office and HBS/Young Presidents’ Organization programs.

Christina also teaches first-year Technology Operations Management (TOM) and Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) courses. She gives speeches on topics related to families in business, leadership and understanding the different chapters of life. She firmly believes that you can have it all, just not all at once.

Christina is a co-founder of Wingspan Legacy Partners, an advisory firm for families and founders. Wingspan takes a holistic approach, listening and advising the family, the family business, the family wealth and family legacy. Christina believes families have a disproportionate ability to affect society, and with the correct leadership, they can be global leaders.

Prior to teaching at HBS and creating Wingspan, 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. Christina was in finance and operations at a startup venture formed by several of her HBS classmates that she joined in the early stages. She began her career focusing on equities and energy investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Kidder Peabody.

Christina is a senior advisor at Crestview Partners, a private equity firm focused on the middle market.

Christina is on the board of ambassadors of The Steppingstone Foundation, an organization providing educational opportunities to under-served children.

A native of The Woodlands, Texas, Christina graduated from Southern Methodist University with a B.B.A. in finance and organizational behavior and business policy. She also earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She currently lives in Chestnut Hill with her husband and three children. Christina is passionate about her family, dogs, friends, students, family clients and golf.

Cases and Teaching Materials
  • Wing, Christina R., and Alpana Thapar. "Esas Group: Investing Together, Staying Together." Harvard Business School Case 623-027, September 2022. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Carlton Burrell Jr., Chika-Dike Nwokike, and Abby Patrick. "Sixty Years of Sylvia’s." Harvard Business School Case 623-018, July 2022. (Revised October 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and John Masko. "The Boston Beer Company (B): Growth and Uncertainty." Harvard Business School Supplement 622-051, September 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Saham Group: It's In the Genes." Harvard Business School Case 621-069, January 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Esel Çekin. "From Beirut with Love (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 622-021, August 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Suraj Srinivasan, and Esel Çekin. "Family Matters: Governance at the Zamil Group." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 622-022, August 2021. (Revised March 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Alpana Thapar. "It's All About Family: Esas Group." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 622-023, July 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and David Lane. "Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 622-016, July 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and John Masko. "Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 621-109, May 2021. View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and David Lane. "Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners." Harvard Business School Case 621-065, March 2021. (Revised June 2021.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R. "The Gauthier Family: To Sell or Not to Sell?" Harvard Business School Case 621-099, March 2021. (Revised July 2021.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and John Masko. "Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 621-018, July 2020. (Revised November 2020.) View Details
  • Hsieh, Nien-he, Christina R. Wing, and John Masko. "Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-091, February 2020. View Details
  • Hsieh, Nien-he, and Christina R. Wing. "Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 620-102, February 2020. View Details
  • Hsieh, Nien-hê, Christina R. Wing, Emilie Fournier, and Anna Resman. "Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 619-039, February 2019. (Revised February 2020.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Charles Richards, and Vicki Morton. "Demystifying Families in Business: Module 3—The Family Office." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-048, October 2019. (Revised July 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Inakshi Sobti. "Thermax—Changing of the Guard." Harvard Business School Case 620-043, October 2019. (Revised February 2020.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R. "Sopra Banking Software: Can a French Fintech Succeed in the U.S.?" Harvard Business School Case 620-004, September 2019. (Revised July 2021.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Alpana Thapar. "It's All About Family: Esas Group." Harvard Business School Case 620-010, September 2019. (Revised August 2021.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Madeline Keulen, and Vicki Morton. "Demystifying Families in Business: Module 2 - The Operating Company." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-037, August 2019. (Revised July 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Madeline Keulen, and Vicki Morton. "Demystifying Families in Business: Module 1 - The Family." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-031, August 2019. (Revised July 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Madeline Keulen. "Demystifying Families in Business." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 620-030, August 2019. (Revised July 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Suraj Srinivasan, and Esel Çekin. "Family Matters: Governance at the Zamil Group." Harvard Business School Case 620-009, August 2019. (Revised March 2022.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Robert F. White, and Michael Norris. "Bill Cummings: The Cummings Way." Harvard Business School Case 619-038, May 2019. (Revised February 2020.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., and Marco Iansiti. "The Boston Beer Company (A): New CEO." Harvard Business School Case 619-021, October 2018. (Revised September 2021.) View Details
  • Wing, Christina R., Esel Y. Cekin, and Samer Al-Rachedy. "From Beirut With Love (B): The Last Judgment." Harvard Business School Supplement 619-027, September 2018. View Details
  • 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.) View Details
Research Summary
Overview
Multi-generational wealth creation through family businesses and family offices. Leadership throughout the chapters of your life.
Keywords: Family Business; Leadership; Succession Planning
Teaching
Demystifying Family Businesses

This course is primarily designed for students who are pursuing a career in family run businesses, family owned businesses, investment roles in family offices, or students that might invest in or wholly purchase a family owned business through a private equity firm, search fund model or a public company that through dual class stock is still family controlled.

The course is also useful for students who are planning to work in companies that advise or support family owned businesses. It may further be interesting for students seeking to advance their knowledge of general management, strategy, succession and governance issues in the context of a challenging and sometimes emotionally driven work environment.

Related Link: Demystifying Family Business
Families in Business

Like every company, family businesses must strive for growth amidst fierce competition, an evolving marketplace, and demanding customers. But family businesses also face a unique set of challenges and opportunities. In this Executive Education program, participants discover how to leverage the intrinsic strengths of their family business and to implement practices that drive high performance, shareholder loyalty, and healthy family relationships.

Related Link: https://www.exed.hbs.edu/families-business/
Technology and Operations Management

This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as well as the creation and delivery of services. Topics include: process analysis, cross-functional and cross-firm integration, product development, information technology, as well as technology and operations strategy.

Leadership and Corporate Accountability

In this course, students learn about the complex responsibilities facing business leaders today. Through cases about difficult managerial decisions, the course examines the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of corporate leaders. It also teaches students about management and governance systems leaders can use to promote responsible conduct by companies and their employees, and shows how personal values can play a critical role in effective leadership.

Overview
Additional Information
  • CV
  • HBR Cold Call: Planning the Future for Harlem’s Beloved Sylvia’s Restaurant
  • Governing the Family-Owned Business webinar
  • Governing the Family-Owned Business webinar summary
  • HBS Alumni & Friends Gathering with Professor Christina R. Wing in Istanbul, Turkey
  • How To! With Charles Duhigg - "How To Fire Your Daughter"
  • Speaking Engagement Video
  • Should Your Family Business Have a “No In-Laws” Policy?
  • Can the “Cummings Way” Live on After the Founder Retires?
  • Create a Culture of Generosity and Communication in Your Family Business
  • A Family Business at a Crossroads: Scaling and Succession
  • Christina Wing Shifted Her Teaching and Offered Insights from CEOs Worldwide
  • Harvard Business Review Podcast, September 27, 2018, "Governing the Family-Owned Business"
Areas of Interest
  • family business
  • innovation
  • leading change
  • succession
  • Additional Topics
  • ethics
  • leadership
Additional Information
CV
HBR Cold Call: Planning the Future for Harlem’s Beloved Sylvia’s Restaurant
Governing the Family-Owned Business webinar
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Governing the Family-Owned Business webinar summary
HBS Alumni & Friends Gathering with Professor Christina R. Wing in Istanbul, Turkey
How To! With Charles Duhigg - "How To Fire Your Daughter"
Speaking Engagement Video
Should Your Family Business Have a “No In-Laws” Policy?
Can the “Cummings Way” Live on After the Founder Retires?
Create a Culture of Generosity and Communication in Your Family Business
A Family Business at a Crossroads: Scaling and Succession
Christina Wing Shifted Her Teaching and Offered Insights from CEOs Worldwide
Harvard Business Review Podcast, September 27, 2018, "Governing the Family-Owned Business"
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Areas of Interest

family business
innovation
leading change
succession
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Additional Topics

ethics
leadership
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