The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
Biography
Arthur Segel is the Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. 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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