William J. Poorvu

William J. Poorvu is an American real estate investor, civic leader and philanthropist. Currently an adjunct professor in entrepreneurship, emeritus at Harvard Business School, he taught on the HBS faculty from 1973 until 2002.

Education Poorvu earned his B.A. from Yale University in 1956 and his MBA from HBS in 1958. currently led by Seth Klarman with $29.4 billion AUM in 2012. He is a member of the Carnegie Corporation 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. In April 2013, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was the first adjunct faculty member at the Harvard Business School to be recognized with a named chair. He was also on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Poorvu, William J Real Estate: A Case Study Approach. Prentice Hall, 1993.