As first published in the Casino Journal, October 2020 The end of 2019 ushered in a banner year. Valuations where high and deals were getting done (Penn National & BarStool,... read more →
October is ‘Halloween season’ - a fun cultural holiday for many people worldwide. It represents a socially sanctioned time of year when children and adults alike can escape to a... read more →
What a difference 6 months makes. 2020 began with hotel companies coming off one of the strongest years in history and feeling optimistic the good times would continue. Since then,... read more →
A year passes with the hotel industry having solid but unspectacular performance. That is probably a good thing in comparison to what many prognosticators predicted. It appears that strategy and... read more →
As published by the Casino Journal in Autumn 2019 The list of public gaming CEOs keeps shrinking as consolidation continues to impact the casino industry. It also seems likely that... read more →
Aethos™ recently reviewed the stability of the C-Suite at the Top50 largest hotel organisations across the globe (click here). The findings revealed that CEO turnover at these management companies has... read more →
The latest shaming of US CEOs appears to be in the form of the Dodd-Frank CEO Pay Ratio initiative. Groups like the AFL-CIO are using this topic to rationalize the... read more →
The last eighteen months has been a reckoning for powerful men in the business world and gaming has been no exception. The #MeToo Movement struck down one of the most... read more →
Being a CEO in the restaurant industry is tough work; and short lived for many. Nearly 20% of the CEOs in our annual study of pay-for-performance resigned, retired or were... read more →
Besides technology, the gaming industry has one of the largest percentages of entrepreneurs running their respective companies. Larger than life personalities such as Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson actually cast... read more →