Tom Yeung here with your Sunday Digest. During the early 1990s real estate crisis, the Marriott Corp. hotel chain found itself in trouble. The company had overexpanded during the boom times of the 1980s, and the ensuing crash had left it with over a hundred unsellable hotels in an overbuilt market. To save the firm, Chief Financial Officer Stephen Bollenbach created a breakup plan for the hotel chain. Under the agreement, Marriott would keep its lucrative management business (the “good” Marriott), while spi ...