Accor: Please Call Housekeeping | businessweek.com

The hotel chain's messy CEO search may have an unlikely result: Better governance. Accor, Europe's biggest hotel chain, has lots of experience washing its guests' linens. But now the Paris company must clean up its own sullied reputation after its search for a new boss led to a rare public airing of a messy boardroom battle. A truce was reached in mid-October, when Gilles Pélisson, a nephew of Accor co-founder Gérard Pélisson,...