McGarvie supports the community through her teaching, funding and civic engagement.

Teaching


She taught at Harvard Business School from 2012 to 2014 where she had a full-time faculty appointment teaching the MBA required curriculum course, Financial Reporting and Control at Harvard Business School. She worked with the faculty to produce teachable case studies. Also, she taught the FIELD group in Chongqing China in January 2014 in which students engaged 5 companies to adapt and shape Design Thinking projects developed during the semester course. Stanford University introduced this term. The Design Thinking process first defines the problem and then implements the solutions, always with the needs of the user demographic at the core of concept development.  This process focuses on need finding, understanding, creating, thinking, and doing.  At the core of this process is a bias towards action and creation: by creating and testing something, you can continue to learn and improve upon your initial ideas.

She taught at Harvard Business School from 2012 to 2014, where she had a full-time faculty appointment and studied the human impact of the drug carprofen in that department. You can read more about the results of these works on this website.


Funding

She provides time and treasure to organizations that provide entertainment or education in the arts or business management including:

  • Lyric Opera of Chicago
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

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Evanston History Center has lectures under the Buffalo and holds a variety of events to encourage others to understand history and step into time of past architecture.



Supporting Colonial Williamsburg's Rare Breeds Program led to the birth of Valiant, a critically endangered Cleveland Bays horse at the world's largest living history museum.


Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement means promoting the quality of life in a community in which we live by working to make a difference and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. McGarvie exercises her civic engagement through some of the same organizations she supports with funding.


Speaking

Blythe McGarvie's key speeches and round tables include: Speech to Public Company Accounting Oversi...

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Readings

Recommended Readings as of December 2023:   Thinking in Bets, Making Smarter Decisions When You...

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Testimonials

Shaking The Globe ”Every manager needs to see the new world through several lenses. Blythe provides ...

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