Arthur I Segel

Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice

Arthur Segel is a professor in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units teaching graduates and undergraduates about real estate and issues of urbanization. In 1982 Segel was a cofounder/owner of TA Associates Realty prior to which he was Vice President at Boston Properties and Deputy for Finance at Massport under Governor Dukakis. In 2005 he co-founded a nonprofit, The Tobin Project, in recent years awarded the MacArthur Genius Award for an Organization for its work on inequality. In 2005 he cofounded The Xander Funds, headquartered in Singapore, primarily focused in private equity real estate in India. In 1998, he cofounded a nonprofit, the 21st Century Fund. Segel is a trustee of the Urban Institute, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and of Yad Hanadiv, a Rothschild family foundation, and serves on the advisory committees of High Vista and the SRB Corporation. He was also the Robert F. Greenhill Award recipient for 2005-2006. Segel was awarded one of the most 30 influential players in real estate in the world by Private Equity Real Estate; Segel is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and is a graduate of Harvard College and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. From 2017-2019, Professor Segel is a Special Student at the Harvard Divinity School.

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Arthur Segel is a professor in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units teaching graduates and undergraduates about real estate and issues of urbanization. In 1982 Segel was a cofounder/owner of TA Associates Realty prior to which he was Vice President at Boston Properties and Deputy for Finance at Massport under Governor Dukakis. In 2005 he co-founded a nonprofit, The Tobin Project, in recent years awarded the MacArthur Genius Award for an Organization for its work on inequality. In 2005 he cofounded The Xander Funds, headquartered in Singapore, primarily focused in private equity real estate in India. In 1998, he cofounded a nonprofit, the 21st Century Fund. Segel is a trustee of the Urban Institute, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and of Yad Hanadiv, a Rothschild family foundation, and serves on the advisory committees of High Vista and the SRB Corporation. Segel was awarded one of the most 30 influential players in real estate in the world by Private Equity Real Estate; Segel is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and is a graduate of Harvard College and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. From 2017-2019, Professor Segel is a Special Student at the Harvard Divinity School.

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HBS Real Estate Conference Presentation: Brexit and Trumpism

This presentation from Prof. Arthur Segel was used in the HBS Alumni Conference, Real Estate 2016, a conversation with fellow alumni leaders in the HBS real estate network on topics that affect us all and will define the world in the years ahead
Affordable Housing and Low Income Housing Tax Credits

Segel, Arthur I., and Nicolas P. Retsinas. "Affordable Housing and Low Income Housing Tax Credits." Harvard Business School Background Note 214-107, June 2014. (Revised December 2014.)

This background note explores the basic themes surrounding the government's approach to providing housing: namely its shift from a supplier and builder of affordable housing to an approach that focuses on demand-side solutions and indirect subsidies to private developers. In addition to a shift from supply-based to demand-based solutions, there is an on-going debate about whether to provide people-based or place-based solutions. The above shift and debate reflects the troubles encountered in the original urban renewal efforts, and the desire today to provide affordable housing that is close to jobs and transportation, that is mixed-income, and contextual to its surrounding development.

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Cities as Laboratories of Innovation
Building Cities

In the course of the 21st century new cities will be built to accommodate global population growth and urbanization. The art of building cities dates back to the Roman Eraa, however there are no commonly accepted guidelines for the necessary trade-offs and options available to modern urban design. Building a new city requires making decisions involving location, scale and types of physical elements, such as streets, buildings, public spaces, community amenities and other forms of infrastructure. These decisions have extensive implications, for they will come to shape human behavior and define the market economics of the space.
General Growth Properties and Pershing Square Capital Management

Segel, Arthur I., Stuart C. Gilson, Thomas Edward Follett Langer, Zubin Gopal Malkani, and John Anthony Mascari. "General Growth Properties and Pershing Square Capital Management." Harvard Business School Case 212-109, May 2012.
India: The Future of Retail

India: The Future of Retail – Panel Discussion co-hosted by CNBC and Virtuous Retail, a Xander investee company

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