Blythe McGarvie

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Blythe J. McGarvie is a corporate director. She has been President and CEO of Leadership for International Finance, LLC, (LIF) and was a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.

Education[]

McGarvie earned an MBA degree from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in 1978[1] and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Career[]

At Harvard, McGarvie teaches the MBA required curriculum course Financial Reporting and Control.[2] She has taught at the school since July 2012.[3]

McGarvie was at LIF, a firm focusing on improving clients' financial positions and providing leadership seminars for corporate and academic groups, from January 2003, according to a 2009 Forbes profile. LIF specialized in providing global perspectives to U.S. and multinational companies, primarily in the consumer goods, financial services and knowledge-based industries.[4] LIF is based in Williamsburg, Virginia, with offices in Los Angeles, London, Chicago, and Boston.[5]

McGarvie also served as:

From 1999 through the end of 2002, McGarvie was the Executive Vice President and Chief financial officer (CFO) at BIC Group, a leading manufacturer of convenient disposable products. She served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hannaford Bros. Co., a New England/New York food retailer, from 1994 to 1999.[4]

McGarvie, earlier, served as a director of:

  • Viacom, Inc. Class B, New York, NY; until February 2017[8]
  • Lafarge North America, a construction-materials company with headquarters in Herndon, Virginia,[9] until May 2006.[4] *Travelers Companies, a financial/property & casualty insurance company
  • Pepsi Bottling Group Inc, a consumer goods/beverages-soft drinks company.[4][2]

Writings[]

Starting with a visit to China in March–April 2009, and continuing into 2010, McGarvie has been posting periodically on Huffington Post.[10] Subjects have included the Shanghai World Expo,[11] a recommendation of The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes on the occasion of President Barack Obama's first 100 days,[12] a visit to Disney World's Epcot and economic indicators,[13] and the Davos World Economic Forum.[14] Over roughly the same period, McGarvie has been issuing and posting a one- to two-page newsletter.[15]

In January 2009, John Wiley & Sons published McGarvie's book Shaking the Globe: Courageous Decision-Making in a Changing World with a foreword by Robert Kraft.[16][17][18]

McGarvie addressed the auto industry crisis of 2008-9 with a call for GM's bankruptcy,[19] and the prevalence of female corporate directors,[20] in two articles in Forbes in 2008 and 2007 respectively.

In October 2005, McGraw-Hill published McGarvie's book Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO Factor in hardcover by in October, 2005.[21]

At the time of FISO's publication, McGarvie was featured in a "Career Couch" Q&A in The New York Times on the subject of how to react "when your new boss reverses popular policies of the previous boss."[22]

In 2002, McGarvie was featured in another Times article on the subject of female representation on corporate boards.[23]

McGarvie has also been featured in CFO magazine, and Fast Company. She has appeared on CNBC, and writes the Corporate Leadership column for magazine. Consumer Goods Technology featured Blythe in a 2002 cover story (“World Class CFO”) and a Business Finance cover story featured her in a piece on “Financial Reporting: How the Best CFOs Get it Right the First Time.”[5]

Honors[]

McGarvie received the Kellogg Graduate School of Management Schaffner Award, presented to an alumnus/-a who is pre-eminent in his or her field and who provided outstanding service to Kellogg. In 2003, she was appointed as Senior Fellow of The Kellogg Innovation Network.

Personal[]

She is married to Mark McGarvie, a professor of history at the University of Richmond.[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ Bryant, Michelle, "Part of the club, or alone above the fray?", Kellogg World Alumni Profile, Winter '05. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Blythe J. McGarvie bio, Harvard Business School website. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Board page, LKQ website. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Blythe J. McGarvie Profile Archived April 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Forbes.com. Retrieved 2-21-09.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c McGarvie bio. LIF Web site. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  6. ^ Blythe J. McGarvie, accenture.com. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  7. ^ Corporate Profile, LKQ website. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  8. ^ Xiao, Derek, "Sumner Redstone Ousts Five Members from Viacom Board, Including CEO Philippe Dauman", Forbes, Jun 16, 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  9. ^ Location search. Lafarge NA Web site. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  10. ^ Blythe McGarvie contents page. Huffington Post. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  11. ^ McGarvie, Blythe J., "G20 and the Shanghai World Expo", Huffington Post, April 3, 2009, with several comments in response. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  12. ^ McGarvie, Blythe J., "100 Days of Obama and the Global Economy", Huffington Post, April 29, 2009. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  13. ^ McGarvie, Blythe J., "Three Clues to the Economy and Disney World", Huffington Post, September 10, 2009. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  14. ^ McGarvie, Blythe J., "Davos, Jobs and Talent", Huffington Post, January 31, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  15. ^ Shaking the Globe newsletter contents page. Archived 2009-12-28 at the Wayback Machine Individual issues undated; two six-issue volumes completed, first issue of volume 3 posted as of retrieval date, all available as pdf or html. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  16. ^ Blythe McGarvie Web site. Retrieved 2-21-09.
  17. ^ Shaking the World Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Wiley web page. ISBN 978-0-470-43815-2. Retrieved 2010-03-28.
  18. ^ Trang, Amy, "Blythe McGarvie ’78 ‘shakes the globe’ to make an impact", Kellogg News and Events, January 8, 2009. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  19. ^ McGarvie, Blythe J., "The U.S. Economy Doesn't Need GM: Let market forces take their course", Forbes, November 19, 2008. Retrieval updated 2010-03-28.
  20. ^ McGarvie, Blythe J., "By The Numbers: Most Female Directors", Forbes, March 21, 2007. Retrieval updated 2010-03-28.
  21. ^ Fit In, Stand Out Archived February 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine ISBN 0-07-146079-9. Retrieved 2-21-09.
  22. ^ Villano, Matt, "Career Couch: What? We Don't Do It That Way Anymore?", The New York Times, Oct. 30, 2005. Retrieved 2-21-09.
  23. ^ Deutsch, Claudia H., "Executive Life; As Boards Regroup, More Women Join", The New York Times, Dec. 1, 2002. Retrieved 2-21-09.

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