Arthur I Segel

Arthur Segel is a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and previously was a professor in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units teaching graduates and undergraduates and writing about issues in real estate accounting, finance, valuation, investment, development, affordable housing, slum redevelopment, sustainability, infrastructure and urbanization, co-developed an on-line alternative investment finance course with Professors Ivashina and Cohen, co-taught January short intensive programs on failure, spirituality and leadership as well as taught or co-taught Immersion courses in Bombay, NYC, Boston, London, Havana. Professor Segel has taught Harvard College Freshman Seminars on the Future of Cities and co-taught with Professor Schrag on Inequality. Professor Segel has been on the faculty since 1996.

Prior to being a Professor at Harvard Business School, 1982 Segel was a co-founder and owner of TA Realty for 20 years. TA Realty is a United States-based real estate advisory, investment and development firm active in over thirty markets and through 2020 has invested over $30 billion. Prior to founding TA Realty, Professor Segel was a project manager and was vice president for finance/accounting at Boston Properties; prior to which Segel was deputy for accounting/finance of Massport under Governor Michael S. Dukakis for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Professor Segel co-founded with Professor Moss, The Tobin Project, in 2005, which was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award for an Organization for its work on inequality in 2013. Also in 2005, Segel co-founded a firm involved in real estate investment, development and finance in over 20 markets in India. In 1998, Segel co-founded the Brookline Innovation Fund. Segel is a trustee of The Urban Institute in Washington D.C., a Life Trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Temple Israel of Boston, a Patron and Trustee of Yad Hanadiv, a Rothschild family foundation. Segel serves on advisory committees for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the SRB Corporation, elected as Brookline Town Meeting Member, Brookline Fiscal Advisory Committee, High Vista Advisor, and previously served as a trustee for the Hebrew Union College Institute for Religion (NY), the Brookline Foundation, the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps and NPR.

Professor Segel was awarded the Robert F. Greenhill Award at Harvard Business School; named one of the 30 most influential players in real estate in the world by Private Equity Real Estate; and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Segel is a graduate of Harvard College and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in its Public Management Program. From 2017 through 2019, Professor Segel attended the Harvard Divinity School with Special Student Status.