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 1978Bryant, Michelle, "Part of the club, or alone above the fray?", Kellogg World Alumni Profile, Winter '05. Retrieved 2010-03-28. and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Career At Harvard, McGarvie teaches the MBA required curriculum course Financial Reporting and Control. She has taught at the school since July 2012., LKQ website. Retrieved 2013-05-18.

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.Blythe J. McGarvie Profile Forbes.com. Retrieved 2-21-09. LIF is based in Williamsburg, Virginia, with offices in Los Angeles, London, Chicago, and Boston.McGarvie bio. LIF Web site. Retrieved 2010-03-28.

McGarvie also served as: Director, Accenture Plc., Dublin, Ireland, services/management services company; since October 2001Blythe J. McGarvie, accenture.com. Retrieved 2016-08-17. Director, Wawa, Inc., Wawa, Pennsylvania Director, LKQ Corporation,Blythe J. McGarvie bio, Harvard Business School website. Retrieved 2013-05-18. an S&P 400 distributor of replacement parts, components and systems for cars and trucks;Corporate Profile, LKQ website. Retrieved 2013-05-18. director since March 2012

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.

McGarvie, earlier, served as a director of: Viacom, Inc. Class B, New York, NY; until February 2017Xiao, Derek, "Sumner Redstone Ousts Five Members from Viacom Board, Including CEO Philippe Dauman", Forbes, Jun 16, 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-17. Lafarge North America, a construction-materials company with headquarters in Herndon, Virginia,Location search. Lafarge NA Web site. Retrieved 2010-03-28. until May 2006. *Travelers Companies, a financial/property & casualty insurance company Pepsi Bottling Group Inc, a consumer goods/beverages-soft drinks company.

Writings Starting with a visit to China in March–April 2009, and continuing into 2010, McGarvie has been posting periodically on Huffington Post.Blythe McGarvie contents page. Huffington Post. Retrieved 2010-03-28. Subjects have included the Shanghai World Expo,McGarvie, Blythe J., "G20 and the Shanghai World Expo", Huffington Post, April 3, 2009, with several comments in response. Retrieved 2010-03-28. a recommendation of The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes on the occasion of President Barack Obama's first 100 days,McGarvie, Blythe J., "100 Days of Obama and the Global Economy", Huffington Post, April 29, 2009. Retrieved 2010-03-28. a visit to Disney World's Epcot and economic indicators,McGarvie, Blythe J., "Three Clues to the Economy and Disney World", Huffington Post, September 10, 2009. Retrieved 2010-03-28. and the Davos World Economic Forum.McGarvie, Blythe J., "Davos, Jobs and Talent", Huffington Post, January 31, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-28. Over roughly the same period, McGarvie has been issuing and posting a one- to two-page newsletter.Shaking the Globe newsletter contents page. 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.

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.Blythe McGarvie Web site. Retrieved 2-21-09.Shaking the World , Wiley web page. . Retrieved 2010-03-28.Trang, Amy, "Blythe McGarvie ’78 ‘shakes the globe’ to make an impact", Kellogg News and Events, January 8, 2009. Retrieved 2013-05-18.

McGarvie addressed the auto industry crisis of 2008-9 with a call for GM's bankruptcy,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. and the prevalence of female corporate directors,McGarvie, Blythe J., "By The Numbers: Most Female Directors", Forbes, March 21, 2007. Retrieval updated 2010-03-28. 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.Fit In, Stand Out . Retrieved 2-21-09.

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."Villano, Matt, "Career Couch: What? We Don't Do It That Way Anymore?", The New York Times, Oct. 30, 2005. Retrieved 2-21-09.

In 2002, McGarvie was featured in another Times article on the subject of female representation on corporate boards.Deutsch, Claudia H., "Executive Life; As Boards Regroup, More Women Join", The New York Times, Dec. 1, 2002. Retrieved 2-21-09.

McGarvie has also been featured in CFO magazine, and Fast Company. She has appeared on CNBC, and writes the Corporate Leadership column for Shattered 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.”

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.

References

External links Official web site Speaker's page, leadingauthorities.com''.