Zell, who got his start in real estate, criticized WeWork's unusual governance model and the industry has a whole for leasing too much to coworking.

Sam Zell, who made his billions resurrecting troubled businesses that ran the gamut from bicycles to real estate, has died at 81. His death was announced by Chicago-based Equity Residential, the real ...

Billionaire Sam Zell, who built one of the largest real estate empires in the U.S. and made his hay by picking up distressed assets, died Thursday at 81 years old. Sam Zell died Thursday. Equity ...

Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate who earned a multibillion-dollar fortune and a reputation as “the grave dancer” for his ability to revive moribund properties has died due to complications from ...

Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate who earned a multibillion-dollar fortune and a reputation as “the grave dancer” for his ability to revive moribund properties died on Thursday. He was 81. Zell ...

Sam Zell’s misadventures at Tribune Co. hardly were emblematic of one of the most financially successful careers in Chicago history. As his private investment company, Equity Investment Trusts, ...

The late real estate billionaire Sam Zell said he never thought about retiring or taking vacations because he enjoyed his work. Zell, who built a fortune buying distressed real estate, said on "The ...

Introduced during the 2013-14 academic year and funded by Sam Zell, the Zell Fellows Program at the Kellogg School of Management is designed to be a unique, applied entrepreneurial experience for a ...

When Samuel Zell outbid two other billionaires, Eli Broad and Ronald Burkle, for Tribune Co. last year, he was hailed as a dealmaker. For just thinnest possible sliver of equity--some $300 million--he ...