Lynne B. Sagalyn
Visiting Professor, Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School

Lynne B. Sagalyn is a Visiting Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, where she was previously on the faculty and built the MBA Real Estate Program.  As  Professor of Real Estate Development and Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, she holds appointments in both the School of Design (City Planning Department) and the Wharton School (Real Estate Department).  She is a frequent lecturer to professional audiences and has taught extensively in executive education programs.

An expert in real estate development and finance, Sagalyn has published extensively on a broad range of issues in real estate and has developed over 55 cases for graduate-level teaching of real estate investment and finance.  She is widely known for her research on public/private partnerships and city building. Her most recent books include Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon (MIT Press, 2001) and Cases in Real Estate Finance and Investment Strategy (Washington, D.C.: ULI—the Urban Land Institute. 1999).  Her current projects include a book on the redevelopment of the World Trade Center (under a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation), a book on public/private development (under a grand from the Urban Land Institute), essays on the media and urban issues, and research on the political economy of historic preservation.

Professor Sagalyn’s activities outside academia are diverse.  She has been a litigation expert, a consultant to both private firms and public agencies, and a member of the New York City [Board of Education] Chancellor’s Commission on the Capital Plan.  She serves as a director of several real estate companies, including UDR (NYSE:UDR) and Capital Trust (NYSE: CT) where she chairs the audit committee chair, and the Goldman Family Enterprises Advisory Board (in New York).  In addition, she is a member of the Advisory Board of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard University and on the faculty of the Weimer School for Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics. 

Professor Sagalyn received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980, a Master of City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University in 1971, and was graduated from Cornell University in 1969 with distinction.  Prior to her appointment at Columbia Business School, she was on the faculty of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at M.I.T.