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...In January 1979, American Express launched a hostile $880m bid for McGraw Hill, the information conglomerate. Lipton was hired to defend McGraw Hill....
...The Emerson Collective, established by Steve Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell Jobs, has invested in existing schools, including one for low-income students in San Jose, where some high-schoolers work a day a week...
...Previous successes where ValueAct had a representative on the board include easing the exit of Steve Ballmer from Microsoft and building Valeant Pharmaceuticals into a major acquisition vehicle....
...Steve Snell, Phil Hurdman and Nick Casey join as strategic partnership managers from Axa Wealth, PruProtect and Aviva Investors respectively....
...Media moguls The 2014 annual Media Summit takes place at the McGraw Hill Building in New York. One thousand executives in the media, entertainment and technology industries are expected to attend....
...They may apply their pressure in private, as Jeff Ubben’s ValueAct did to ease out Steve Ballmer as chief executive at Microsoft....
...“That was the defining moment in the success of Apollo,” says Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone’s founder, who has been competing with Apollo for more than 20 years....
...“Everyone has refinanced their debt,” said Steve Miller, head of the LCD arm of Standard & Poor’s. “There are not a lot of companies that are in critical condition like Cengage....
...May, McGraw Hill, $24/£16.99 Matthew May has hit upon an attractive theme....
...McGraw-Hill, the media and ratings conglomerate, is dismantling itself, following calls from activist hedge fund Jana Partners for a quartering of the company....
...Apple will take a 30 per cent cut of titles sold through its new iBooks 2 application, but Terry McGraw, chairman and chief executive of McGraw-Hill, said he was “very relaxed” about this and believed Apple...
...He sat on the boards of AOL and AOL Time Warner, before stepping down in 2006 after the departure of Steve Case, AOL’s founder....
...According to Sue Mengers, who leapt to the top of the male-dominated agency world of the 1970s with clients who included Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman and Ali McGraw, “In England, if a star actor was represented...
...“I welcomed her and said I wanted to chat,” Mr Ballmer told a gathering of media executives at the annual McGraw-Hill sponsored Media Summit....
...In 2004 Steve Turner, Randall Winn and Neal Goldman sold Capital IQ for more than $200m to McGraw-Hill, the media and information services group....
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