The AIG Story (ePub)

Selected as one of Motley Fool's "5 Great
Books You Should Read"

In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg
(1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert
Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and its
relentless pioneering of open markets everywhere in the world. They
regale readers with riveting vignettes of how AIG grew from a
modest group of insurance enterprises in 1970 to the largest
insurance company in world history. They help us understand AIG's
distinctive entrepreneurial culture and how its outstanding
employees worldwide helped pave the road to
globalization.

* Corrects numerous common misconceptions about AIG that arose
due to its role at the center of the financial crisis of 2008.

* A unique account of AIG by one of the iconic business leaders
of the twentieth century who developed close relationships with
many of the most important world leaders of the period and helped
to open markets everywhere

* Offers new critical perspective on battles with N. Y. Attorney
General Eliot Spitzer and the 2008 U.S. government seizure of AIG
amid the financial crisis

* Shares considerable information not previously made
public

The AIG Story captures an impressive saga in business
history--one of innovation, vision and leadership at a company that
was nearly--destroyed with a few strokes of governmental pens. The
AIG Story carries important lessons and implications for the
U.S., especially its role in international affairs, its approach to
business, its legal system and its handling of financial
crises.