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McGraw-Hill



The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are education, publishing, broadcasting, and financial and business services. It publishes numerous textbooks and magazines, including BusinessWeek and Aviation Week, and is the parent company of Standard & Poor's and J.D. Power and Associates.

Divisions

Education

*Pre-K to 12
**Macmillan/McGraw-Hill (K to 6)
**SRA (Pre-K to 8)
**Wright Group (Pre-K to 8)
**Glencoe (6 to 12)
**McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
**Professional Development (Pre-K to 12/Teachers)
*Assessment & Instruction
**CTB
**The Grow Network
**MH Digitial
*Higher Education
*Professional[1]

Financial Services

*Standard & Poor's

Information and Media

*Aviation Week
*Engineering News-Record
*Electrical World
*Television Stations (all ABC affiliates, unless specified)
**KMGH, Denver, Colorado
**KGTV, San Diego, California
***KZSD-LP (Azteca America), San Diego, California
**KERO, Bakersfield, California
***KPMC-LP (Azteca America), Bakersfield, California
**WRTV, Indianapolis, Indiana
*BusinessWeek
*Healthcare Information Group (sold in November 2005 to Vendome Group, LLC.)
*J.D. Power and Associates
*McGraw-Hill Construction
*Platts

Presidents of the company

* John A. Hill (1909 – 1917)
* James H. McGraw (1917 – 1928)
* Malcolm Muir (1928 – 1948)
* James McGraw, Jr. (1948 – 1950)
* Curtis W. McGraw (1950 – 1953)
* Donald C. McGraw (1953 – 1968)
* Shelton Fisher (1968 – 1974)
* Harold McGraw, Jr (1974 – 1983)
* Joseph Dionne (1983 – 1998)
* Harold W. McGraw III (1998 – Present)

Acquisitions

In the 1990's, McGraw-Hill acquired NTC/Contemporary and subsequently formed McGraw-Hill/Contemporary.

Trivia

In the 1990 episode of The Simpsons, "Bart Gets an F", Bart gives his book report about Treasure Island. Not having read the book, Bart instead gave the physical details of his copy of the book, including the fact that it was "published by the good people at McGraw-Hill".

External links

*The McGraw-Hill Companies website
*McGraw-Hill Higher Education website
*Platts website
*McGraw-Hill Construction and Information Center
*Transcripts of The McGraw-Hill Companies' Quarterly Conference Calls



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