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...Thomas Singlehurst, an analyst with Citi said: “To be fair to the company, these are things they have talked about before. But the magnitude is much worse than they thought....
...However, Thomas Zielinski, Anthem’s general counsel, told insurance regulators in August that its cyber insurance has become more expensive since the breach....
...Additional reporting by Helen Thomas...
...Mr Gilburne also brought in Thomas Middelhoff to chair ePals Europe....
...While Harold “Terry” McGraw III, chief executive, has said “everything” is on the table during the restructuring, people familiar with the company’s thinking said the one part of the company McGraw-Hill...
...Activist fund Jana Partners has proposed a quartering of the McGraw-Hill business, as reported by FT colleagues Dan McCrum, David Gelles and Helen Thomas....
...McGraw-Hill has brought Goldman Sachs on board to consider all its options....
...Mr McGraw as chief executive....
...Splits, spinoffs and demergers have won favour among big US companies – including Kraft Foods, McGraw-Hill and ConocoPhillips – that are seeking to improve their valuation and refocus their business as the...
...Goldman Sachs estimated last month that McGraw-Hill Construction was worth $563m, Aviation Week $116m and the broadcast group $137m....
...In 2011, companies such as McGraw-Hill, ITT and Yahoo have come under pressure to rethink their business strategy, Clorox was unsuccessfully pushed by Carl Icahn to sell the company, while activists have...
...Since mid-July, these companies have included media conglomerate McGraw-Hill; Kraft Foods; and oil group ConocoPhillips which said it would demerge its refining and marketing operation....
...Meanwhile, activist investor Jana Partners this week joined forces with a Canadian pension plan to press for a break-up at McGraw-Hill, whose businesses span text books to credit ratings....
...McGraw-Hill has a partnership with Blackboard, integrating its courses and assessment tools with the company’s systems, but Blackboard works with content from several publishers, which might limit any individual...
...But publishers rejected fears expressed after the Texas vote that students from Arkansas to Wyoming would now hear less about Thomas Jefferson’s views on church and state or more about free-market economists...
...“Singapore has been our hub serving India and south-east Asia for some time,” says Thomas Schiller, executive managing director Asia Pacific with S&P....
...Luke, Chairman of the Board and CEO, MeadWestvaco Corporation, USA Harold McGraw III, Chairman, President and CEO, The McGraw-Hill Companies, USA Gérard Mestrallet, Chairman and CEO, Suez, France Yogendra...
...The newly created company will compete with Pearson, owner of the Financial Times, Reed Elsevier and McGraw Hill in the consolidating US educational publishing market....
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...Its main rival in the auction is a second consortium including billionaire Haim Saban, Providence Equity Partners, Thomas H Lee Partners, and others....
...This could involve an alliance with US broadcasters such as Paxson Communications, NBC’s Telemundo unit, and McGraw Hill....
...The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization By Thomas Homer-Dixon Souvenir £15, 448 pages FT bookshop price: £12 The Canadian political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon takes...
...Harold McGraw, chief executive of McGraw-Hill, the publisher, urged an audience of business leaders in New York this month to do more to ensure the gains from globalisation are shared....
...CHASING DAYLIGHT: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life by Eugene O’Kelly McGraw-Hill ₤11.99, 160 pages Challenging and thought-provoking narrative of a chief executive’s final 100 days of life....
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