Kristin Williams Mugford

Kristin Mugford is the Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School.  She currently teaches "Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring," a highly popular elective course that analyzes how economic stress and restructuring creates challenges and opportunities for businesses and their stakeholders. She has also taught Venture Capital and Private Equity, the FIELD Global Immersion, and helped create a new HBS course on Small Business as well as the Bridges MBA Capstone program. 

 She has received the Robert F. Greenhill Award, the HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award, the Charles M. Williams Award for teaching excellence, and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.

In 2013 Kristin retired from her position as Managing Director of Bain Capital, one of the world''s leading private investment firms. Bain Capital and its affiliated advisors manage over $75 billion and make private equity, public equity, fixed income and credit, venture capital, and absolute return investments across multiple geographies and industries. 

Kristin joined Bain Capital''s private equity business in 1994 and at the age of 32, became the first female Managing Director in the firm''s history. Kristin helped start Bain Capital Credit (founded as Sankaty Advisors), and prior to her retirement was responsible for the oversight of their high yield investments and a senior member of Bain Capital Credit''s management team and investment committee. Bain Capital Credit is one of the leading corporate and distressed debt managers, managing over $30 billion with 230 employees in seven offices around the world. Kristin is currently a Senior Director of the firm.  

Kristin began her career at the Walt Disney Company, where she worked in corporate strategic planning and the consumer products division. She graduated from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar and holds an AB with honors from Harvard College.