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La Quinta Makes Bold Plans for 2016

Coming off of a decidedly mixed 2015 that included a 25.6 percent drop in its stock price (year-over-year) and the departure of longtime CEO...

The Rising Cost of Money

Troubling events in the global economy—stock market volatility, weak growth in China, and plunging oil prices, among others—coupled with a moderate slowdown in industry...

Startup Investing Offers More Than Dumb Money

As managing director of Thayer Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on hospitality technology and backed by one of the Thayer Lodging Group funds,...

Inside Thayer’s Investment Success

Leland Pillsbury is a man in motion. One day he’s flying his jet to State College, Pennsylvania, to give a lecture on embracing disruption...

First Big Break: Lee Pillsbury’s Inside Track to Success

When then-president of Marriott Hotels Fred Malek brought Lee Pillsbury into the senior executive ranks in the early ‘80s, Pillsbury was general manager of...