Christina R. Wing

Christina R. Wing

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Technology and Operations Management
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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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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.

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