Professor

Arthur I Segel

Harvard Business School
Company founder and executive (investment and finance); Philanthropist; Educator
Area
Leadership, Policy, and Communications
Specialty
Business, Corporate, and Philanthropic Leadership
Elected
2016

Arthur Segel is a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, where he has taught and written extensively about real estate for twenty years. He is recognized as a leader in the academic analysis of private equity in real estate. Segel was a founder of TA Realty, a real estate advisory, investment, and development firm, and a co-founder of Xander Funds, a real estate private equity firm in India.

His research interests include all aspects of real estate, from development to securitization in new and growing markets; environmental and sustainability issues in real estate from green, brown, and gray fields development to green construction and new patterns of urban planning; and debt restructuring and reorganization of real estate projects/companies.

Segel co-founded The Tobin Project, a nonprofit that was awarded in 2012 the MacArthur Genius Award for an Organization for its work on inequality. Segel has been named one of the 30 most influential players in real estate in the world by Private Equity Real Estate. His philanthropic activities also include serving as Vice Chair of the Boston Symphony, and a Trustee of the Rothschild Family Foundation. 

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