Faculty and Research

Arthur Segel is the Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice in the Finance Department at Harvard Business School where he has been writing cases and teaching the Real Property Asset Management course since 1996. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College (1973) and Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (1975).

Mr. Segel was a co-founder and co-owner (1982-2001) of TA Associates Realty, a large private equity real estate development and investment advisory firm specializing in commercial and multi-family real estate in over thirty markets in the United States and Canada. Prior to TA Associates Realty, he worked as a Vice President at Boston Properties and as Deputy for Finance and Administration at Massport. He is the founder and Advisory Committee Chair of Xander Funds, a real estate investment company in India; a co-founder of The Tobin Project, a non-profit that encourages policy-relevant academic research; and the 21st Century Fund, a non-profit for public education.  He serves on the Advisory Committees of High Vista, a Boston-based multi-asset fund; Portland Capital, a London-based public real estate hedge fund; and SRB Corporation, a Boston-based insurance company.  He is also on the Board of Trexa, a Mumbai-based retail development and investment firm.  He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, NAIOP, a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the 2009 Boston co-chair of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies. In 2006, Private Equity Real Estate Journal awarded him one of the 30 most influential players in real estate in the world.