HILTON: SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY?

摘要

It couldn't have made Stephen F. Bollenbach terribly happy. At a conference of the hotel-and-casino industry at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, beneath a banner reading "When you're still hot—you're re- ally hot!" the Hilton Hotels Corp. CEO was forced to sit on a panel with Barry Sternlicht, the 36-year-old chairman of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Trust who had two months earlier beaten Bollenbach in an $11.7 billion takeover battle for nr Corp. "Other than missing out on just one small deal, we had a great year," Bollenbach said when it came time for him to grab the microphone.