Hank Greenberg--An Epitome of Personality Traits Needed for Extreme Success

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James B Stewart, Still in the Ring at 90, Battling for AIG; Willing and able to spend what it takes to vindicate the company he built. New York Times, May 1, 2015.
www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/busin ... ng-aig-charges.html
(“Under the pressure of the investigation [led by then New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer], Mr Greenberg was forced to resign from AIG in June 2005. (Whether AIG would have come close to collapse in 2008 [and bought by US government] had Mr Greenberg been allowed to stay remains an open question. * * * Mr Spitzer never obtained the threatened indictment for criminal fraud" but did file that year a civil action against AIG and Greenberg)

Note: "In the 10 years since he resigned from AIG at age 80, Mr Greenberg and a close circle of longtime colleagues have built the privately held C V Starr & Company from a small holding company with a handful of insurance agencies and employees into a global insurance company with over 3,000 employees."

Cornelius Vander Starr
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Vander_Starr
(1892-1968 founded AIG in 1919 in Shanghai)
(a) In 1960 Starr hired Maurice R "Hank" Greenberg [born in 1925 in Chicago], and in 1968 named Greenberg successor.  Wikipedia
(b) Greenberg is currently chairman and CEO of C V Starr & Co.
(c) Who We Are. Star Companies, undated
www.starrcompanies.com/WhoWeAre
(CV "Starr formed STARR International in 1943 in Panama [the predecessor of C V Starr & Company]. During the 1940s, STARR International became the parent company to all of the overseas companies")