Comparing Unethical versus Ethical Leadership AIG

American International Group Inc. (AIG) is a multi trillion dollar insurance giant. AIG originated in China in 1919 and was perceived as a humble honest company (Gilani, 2008). Within the last few years AIG has been at the forefront of much debate about their financial decisions. A few attributed to AIGs demise was their accumulation of misplaced bets on credit default swaps. AIG also was ran by a CEO named Maurice R. Greenherg who grew the company aggressively and diversified the insurance company to a trillion-dollar balance sheet. AIG found its investments going bad when the housing market began to crash (AIG: What Went Wrong).

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AIG was the world's largest insurance company. The company originally a humble honest company that...