A legendary CEO tells the inside story of building the world's largest insurance company-and the dramatic tale of its near-destruction after he left in early 2005, as successors transformed AIG and drove it to the center of the financial crisis of 2008 In 1962, Maurice Greenberg was handed leadership of a small, failing insurance company. By 2004, American International Group (AIG) had become the world's eighteenthlargest company. Then the financial crisis hit and ""Hank"" Greenberg's magnificent creation teetered on the brink. You've read other accounts of AIG. Now read the inside s.�Abstract: A legendary CEO tells the inside story of building the world's largest insurance company-and the dramatic tale of its near-destruction after he left in early 2005, as successors transformed AIG and drove it to the center of the financial crisis of 2008 In 1962, Maurice Greenberg was handed leadership of a small, failing insurance company. By 2004, American International Group (AIG) had become the world's eighteenth largest company. Then the financial crisis hit and ""Hank"" Greenberg's magnificent creation teetered on the brink. You've read other accounts of AIG. Now read the inside s