14. Guest Speaker Maurice “Hank“ Greenberg

Financial Markets (2011) (ECON 252) This is a guest lecture by Maurice “Hank“ Greenberg, former Chief Executive Officer at American International Group. Mr. Greenberg starts his lecture with reflections on his time in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War as well as on his first job in the insurance business as a junior underwriter. Subsequently, after meeting Cornelius Vander Starr, he restructures Starr’s failing company The American Home and creates the American International Group (AIG).