Chairman’s Note xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xxi
Part One
Chapter 1 Independence 3
Chapter 2 Innovation 19
Chapter 3 Succession 31
Chapter 4 Vision and Culture 43
Chapter 5 The Internationalist 53
Chapter 6 Raising the Iron Curtain 63
Chapter 7 Opening Trade in Services 79
Chapter 8 Reopening China 95
Chapter 9 The Life Business 111
Chapter 10 The Domestic Front 125
Chapter 11 Investments 139
Chapter 12 Governance 149
Part Two
Interlude 167
Chapter 13 Hostile Change 171
Chapter 14 Restating History 189
Chapter 15 Civil War 203
Chapter 16 Saving the Starr Foundation 213
Chapter 17 Chaos 223
Chapter 18 Nationalization 243
Epilogue 261
Notes 265
About the Companion Web Site 309
About the Authors 311
Index 313
Maurice R. Greenberg is Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. He joined C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. as Vice President in 1960 and was given the additional responsibilities of President of American Home Assurance Company in 1962. He was elected Director of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. in 1965, Chairman and CEO in 1968 and continues in that role. Mr. Greenberg retired as Chairman and CEO of American International Group, Inc. (AIG) in March 2005, after serving as Chief Executive Officer from 1967. Under his leadership, AIG became the largest insurance company in the world and generated unprecedented value for AIG shareholders. During the nearly forty years of his leadership, AIG's market value grew from $300 million to $l80 billion. Lawrence A. Cunningham is the Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor at the George Washington University Law School and Director of GW's Center for Law, Economics and Finance (C-LEAF) in New York. Previous books include Contracts in the Real World: Stories of Popular Contracts and Why They Matter (Cambridge University Press 2012). His writings--on a wide range of business and legal topics--have also appeared in leading scholarly journals and such periodicals as the New York Times , the Financial Times , and the New York Daily News .
'...this book is a compelling chronicle of one of the great business success storied of the twentieth century as well as a history of the evolution of global capitalism over the past six decades' (Continuity Insurance & Risk, February 2013)
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