Christina Wing

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.