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Sam Zell, an entrepreneur career opportunities Samuel Zell is the other way of doing business. It was commercially successful entrepreneur from the failure of another, making it the perfect restorative for the failures of others. Defying the laws of debit and credit boasts the arm with broken glass artwork which is then marketed admired and even by his detractors. He spent his childhood in Chicago, where he established his Polish parents fleeing the war that had erupted in the old continent. Very soon Sam's father, Bernard, shortened the family name to Zell Zielonka, and nothing would change in the business destination of Samuel "Sam" Zell, who set a goal to demonstrate that the challenge is the change to positive. Premises described in the programs implemented through its foundation Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the arriving entrepreneurs around the world eager to follow in his footsteps and where Zell is encouraged to confer on technology and development. This global billionaire real estate is, as ranked by Forbes magazine, ranking 52 among the richest people in the United States. His latest investment occurred very recently and had to do with the media world. Far from believing that the golden age of mass media has gone, bet Tribune Group, a leading U.S. media. Known as the Grave Dancer, and far from being offended by such a nickname, has made a cult of it, putting on the door of his office a man dancing on a grave. Executive whose fortune before Tribune was about 5,000 million, income could see the error of adversity making his own great enterprise. For him from there anything is possible. ---------- Samuel "Sam" Zell (born September 1941) is a U.S. - Born billionaire and real estate entrepreneur. He is co-founder and president of the group's investments in equity, a private investment firm. With an estimated net worth of $ 6 billion, close to line as the 52nd richest American Forbes. [1] On April 2, 2007, Zell bought the Tribune Company, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Newsday and the Chicago Cubs owner. The deal closed on December 21, 2007, with Zell Tribune Co. who became president and CEO. Early life Zell was born in Chicago in 1941 to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland who fled the country just before the Nazi invasion in 1939. Shortly after moving from Seattle to Chicago, Zell's father Bernard changed the family name to Zell from Zielonka. He received his BA (1963) University of Michigan, where he was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity . He also received his JD (1966) University of Michigan Law School. Real Estate Business Zell, with Roberto Lurie went on to found the group's investments in equity, LLC, which spawned three public companies, real estate, including: Equity Residential, the largest owner of apartment in the United States; Features Equity Office, the largest owner of office of the country and manufactured home communities, mobile home company. Moreover, Zell has created a number of public and private companies. He also controls the LLC as its investment arm SZ investment. Zell is also chairman of Capital Trust Inc., finance and management company focusing on investment in commercial real estate industry, and Anixter International, the world's largest distributor of communication products and electrical wire and cable and electronic . Recently, Blackstone Group completed its purchase of Equity Office Properties Trust, Zell for $ 39 billion, [4] and sold many of the features listed for record amounts. Investment means Between 1992 and 1999, the fund Chillmark Zell owned Jacor Communications, Inc., a group of successful radio broadcast that included a television station. The company was sold to Clear Channel Communications in 1999. On April 2, 2007, Tribune Company announced their acceptance of Zell's offer to buy Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and other media assets. On December 20, 2007, Zell took the company private. He plans to sell Chicago Cubs, and sell the interest of the company's 25 percent in Comcast SportsNet Chicago. On December 21, 2007 Zell became chairman and CEO of Tribune Company. According to the Jewish Daily Forward, the purchase of the times had stirred the debate over how Zell, who has a reputation for being a "committed Zionist," affect the paper's coverage of Israel. [6] A former Los Angeles measured time political reporter, Ken Reich, assumes the role policies will be formed to a "certain degree." The Reich said, "If he cares about the state of Israel, he does not want his newspaper out there chipping away at Israeli interests ... I would not take much tweaking him to sharply alter the editorial policy of times in the Middle East. I tend to expect this to happen. Zell is known for using language "salt" in the language. In February 2008, the Web site LA reprinted seen an internal memo that said: Last week you may have encountered some colorful uses of the lexicon of Sam Zell that we are not used to hear at times ... but of course we still have the same expectations at the time of what is correct in the workplace. There is good sense to use profane or hostile language and we can not tolerate that ... well, nothing changes the basic rules of decorum and decency apply ... Sam is a force of nature, the rest of us is limited by the normal conventions of society. Philanthropy A long-term supporter of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he helped fund the real estate department at Wharton, as well as the Zell-Lurie Institute at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Zell also endowed the Zell Center for Risk Research Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Samuel Zell and center of the Robert Lurie Real Estate at the Wharton School. Zell has also donated significantly to his alma mater, University of Michigan. Zell, according to striker , is also "a major donor to causes in the Middle East. His donations include a $ 3.1 million donation to the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centre in Israel and separate grants Israel Centre for social and economic progress, a right Israeli think tank. In the United States, he has given major gifts to Jewish causes like the American Jewish Committee and Jewish day of Chicago named after his father. " Political Contributions Zell has donated to both Republican and Democratic candidates - with more money going to the former - as well as lobbying groups representing the real estate industry. According to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records by the Center for Public Integrity, "Zell has given more than $ 100,000 in political contributions from wave 1998 of the election, most of it causes supporting a Republican." Controversies In 2008, Zell announced a plan to put the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field up for sale separately to maximize profits. He also announced it would consider selling naming rights to Wrigley Field for anyone who wanted to put up the money. These warnings have been widely unpopular in Chicago and a survey taken by Chicago Sun-Times showed that 53% of 2,000 people who voted for him that would serve no more Cubs games if the field was renamed. Zell also made a controversial statement in April 2008 at a conference in Los Angeles where he claimed, of "this country needs a cleansing. We need to wipe out all those people who should never have been in houses in the first place and for sure should not get sympathy
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