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Leadership Why Hotel Giant Marriott Is on an Expansion Binge as It Fends Off Airbnb Arne Sorenson is back on the banks of the Ganges River. “It was sensory overload,” he says, a faraway look in his eyes as he recalls a trip to India’s holy city of Varanasi 11 years ago with his wife

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Leadership Marriott CEO: At a Time of Great Anxiety Around Diversity, We Need to Communicate From the time that Arne Sorenson was a mere attorney working with hotel giant Marriott International (he was a partner with the Washington, D.C. law firm Latham and Watkins), he knew that the

Leadership Marriott CEO: Here’s Why We Did the $13.6 Billion Starwood Deal In early 2015, Starwood Hotels and Resorts—the innovative Stamford, Conn. company known for the W, Westin, Sheraton, and St. Regis brands, among many others—put itself up for sale. It was a rare

MPW A Marriott Executive Explains How She Climbed the Corporate Ladder Our newest episode of the Fortune Unfiltered podcast features Stephanie Linnartz, chief global commercial officer at Marriott mar . With 30 brands and hotels in 110 countries, Marriott is the largest

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Travel How Hotels Are Starting to Imitate Airbnb Over the years, Airbnb and the hotel industry have largely maintained a nonaggression pact. The incumbents tended to pooh-pooh the potential threat posed by the upstart, and the upstart insisted it

Marriott Acquires Starwood Hotels For $12.2 Billion

Travel 3 Secret Ways to Make Your Marriott and Starwood Points Go Farther This article originally appeared on Travel + Leisure. When Marriott mar completed its merger with Starwood in September, it announced that the Starwood Preferred Guest loyalty program wouldn’t be

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Travel China Needs More Time to Review Marriott’s Acquisition of Starwood Hotels China has extended its review of Marriott International mar acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide hot by up to 60 days, the companies said on Monday. China’s Ministry of

Starwood Hotels Climbs After Earnings Beat Analysts' Estimates

Leadership Starwood Hotels Lost its Chinese Suitor. Now It’s Marriott’s Challenge The fight for Starwood hot is apparently over, but the story of what happened has yet to be told. We’ve been following this saga since Wu Xiaohui, CEO of China’s mysterious Anbang Insurance

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