Ace Greenberg reflects on a humorous email exchange involving Jimmy Cayne and a pot-smoking incident.

Back in their early days of Bear Stearns, Jimmy Cayne and Ace Greenberg were the best of friends. But their relationship was strained after Cayne ousted Greenberg as CEO and relegated him to a ...

Jimmy Cayne: In his own words. The former Bear Stearns CEO speaks out for the first time since the firm's collapse, presenting his version of how things went wrong.

Bear Stearns' legendary boss Ace Greenberg handed the baton to CEO Jimmy Cayne yesterday, ushering in a new generation of top management at the Wall Street brokerage. As part of the changing of ...

Alan "Ace" Greenberg, 80, who preceded Cayne as CEO, is now vice chairman emeritus at the merged firm and gets to keep 40% of any trading commissions he generates.

His love of bridge and vaulting ambition got Cayne a meeting with Ace Greenberg, a stock trader and risk manager of enormous skill, and soon-to-be CEO of Bear Steans.

Alan C. “Ace” Greenberg, the longtime chief executive of investment bank Bear Stearns, died due to complications from cancer. He was 86.

It was 2001 when I said to Jimmy Cayne, the chief executive, that I wanted to retire as chairman of Bear Stearns. My exact words were, “I want to quit on top.” And he said, “I don’t want ...

Legendary trader Ace Greenberg handed the reins of Bear Stearns to best friend and CEO Jimmy Cayne. Now Cayne’s spot is being shared by two of the firm’s heavyweights — from opposite sides ...

Written with the cooperation of Jimmy Cayne, the firm’s CEO and Greenberg’s onetime close friend and bridge partner, House of Cards credits Cayne rather than Greenberg as the figure who ...

You weren’t afraid to go to Jimmy Cayne and tell him what was what, like when you said he should stop taking a private elevator because people resented him for it, and when you were upset that ...

They don't exist. He had one friend—me."Some Wall Street veterans said the reluctance of both Messrs. Greenberg and Cayne to venture into new markets restricted the firm's growth.