William J. Poorvu is an American

real estate investor Real estate investing involves the purchase, management and sale or rental of real estate for profit. Someone who actively or passively invests in real estate is called a real estate entrepreneur or a real estate investor. Some investors actively ...

and adjunct professor in entrepreneurship, Emeritus at

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

. He was an adjunct professor on the HBS faculty from 1973 until 2002.

Education

Poorvu earned his B.A. from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 1956 and his MBA from HBS in 1958.

Career

Poorvu is the co-founder, chairman, and co-chair of the advisory board of the

hedge fund A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as sho ...

The

Baupost Group The Baupost Group is a hedge fund founded in 1982 by Harvard adjunct professor William Poorvu and partners Howard Stevenson, Jordan Baruch and Isaac Auerbach. Seth Klarman, who was asked by Poorvu to help run the fund, remains at its head today ...

, currently led by

Seth Klarman Seth Andrew Klarman (born May 21, 1957) is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and author. He is a proponent of value investing. He is the chief executive and portfolio manager of the Baupost Group, a Boston-based private inve ...

with $29.4 billion AUM in 2012. He is a member of the

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Investment Committee and a former member of the Yale University Investment Committee and of the Yale University Council. He is a Trustee of the

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History was founded in New York City by businessmen-philanthropists Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman in 1994 to promote the study and interest in American history. The Institute serves teachers, studen ...

. In April 2013, he was elected to the

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. He was also on the faculty of the

Harvard Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban ...

Selected works

*Poorvu, William J. ''Creating and Growing Real Estate Wealth: The 4 Stages to a Lifetime of Success.'' Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Wharton School Pub, 2008. *Poorvu, William J., and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank.'' The Real Estate Game: The Intelligent Guide to Decision-Making and Investment.'' New York, NY: Free Press, 1999. **also translated into Japanese as'' ハーバード・ビジネススクールが教える不動産投資ゲーム / Hābādo bijinesu sukūru ga oshieru fudōsan tōshi gēmu'' *Poorvu, William J. ''The Real Estate Challenge: Capitalizing on Change.'' Prentice Hall, 1996. *Poorvu, William J ''Real Estate: A Case Study Approach.'' Prentice Hall, 1993.

References

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