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Corporate Governance Research Program: Additional Reading

 

Thursday, April 5th, 2007 "Make Me an Offer - Sam Zell and the $39 Billion Buyout of Equity Office Properties"

Sam Zell, Chairman of the Board of Equity International

Sam Zell completed the merger of Equity Office Properties with the Blackstone Group in a going-private buyout valued at a record-setting $39 billion. Equity Office Properties was the nation's largest publicly traded office building owner with interests in more than 500 buildings in 16 states and was the subject of a closely fought bidding war.

Come hear Mr. Zell speak about the market for corporate control, bidding wars in takeover battles and the role of governance in the public equity markets.

Selected Articles

Additional reading material has been selected by Jackson Library Staff. Due to contractual arrangements, access to some articles may be restricted to the Stanford community, and subscribers of the "Library Databases" offered through the GSB Alumni's Lifelong Learning Program. Inclusion below does not imply University endorsement of the ideas expressed.

Sam Zell's Latest Gamble: Tribune Co. NPR Morning Edition, 4/3/07
Chicago real estate billionaire Sam Zell is often called the "Grave Dancer" for his willingness to take on business risks. His latest maneuver is the purchase of the Tribune Company—a struggling media conglomerate in his hometown.
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Zell wins Tribune action; Cubs to be sold. Chicago Tribune, 4/2/07
After an epic corporate drama, Chicago's Tribune Co. will go private in a transaction that puts the 159-year-old media conglomerate in the hands of the city's most iconoclastic entrepreneur, Sam Zell.
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Sam Zell, the 'Grave Dancer', Sees Profit in Newspapers. International Herald Tribune, 3/25/07
Zell, who made billions in real estate, is seeing markets once again, this time in newspapers.
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Ever the Contrarian. The Globe and Mail, 3/30/07
Like other real estate swashbucklers, Sam Zell is proud to be a contrarian.
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The Man Who Didn't Come to Dinner. Barron's, 3/12/07
Sam Zell wasn't invited to financier Steve Schwarzman's NYC birthday party, and he doesn't seem to care. "I'm not a New York kind of guy," he says in his gadget-filled office in a nondescript Art Deco building in Chicago's West Loop area.
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Selected Websites

Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies

The Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton

The Zell Entrepreneurship Program