Jan 2, 2015
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors Earlier this year, I blogged about the excitement in China generated by the news that its Dalian Wanda Group planned to invest $1.09bn to build and operate a luxury hotel in London. At the time of...
Dec 2, 2014
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors The facts tell the story. Since 2000 the rise of the world’s emerging markets has been one of the defining, but relatively little reported, features of the global economy. Consider this: In the next...
Dec 2, 2014
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors I spent the last half of my 40-year career with Marriott International traveling the globe as president and managing director of the company’s offshore lodging division. During those years, I visited...
Nov 21, 2014
By: David M. Brudney Member of Laguna Strategic Advisors Much will be written and spoken since word reached all of us last week of the passing of hotel icon Jack Vaughn. It was Jack, along with his partner-in-crime Mike “Shiny” Dimond (Mike...
Nov 18, 2014
By: Edwin Fuller Founder and President of Laguna Strategic Advisors Everywhere we look these days, it seems, everything appears to be falling apart. New, politically explosive global trouble spots emerge daily while lingering ones become more demanding and complex....