Talk:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Archives/2013

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First graf needs a lot of help. Anyone looking to do more work on this topic should go to a library and check out Ellen Ballou's The Building of the House, a book-length history of the company up to about 1980. 18.26.0.18 17:48, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I was surprised tonight to learn that most of the interesting things about a major publisher whose history apparently goes back 180 years don't involve books, and have happened in the past decade. Harrumph. I'll see what I can do to turn this into a useful source of information for people not primarily interested in business management sometime in the next few months. Joe Bernstein, posting to Wikipedia for the first time in 2012 (and aware of HM as publishers of Tolkien in the US, if nothing else). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.97.20.146 (talk) 02:13, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

pronunciation

Someone please add this in IPA: Houghton Mifflin is pronounced HO-tin MIF-lin http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/internshipGenInfo.asp?internshipID=416 --Espoo 16:02, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Merge proposal

I propose that Ticknor and Fields be merged into this article. There is no point having two short articles where one deals with the history of the other. – ukexpat (talk) 18:26, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I would agree with the merge except that the article of Ticknor and Fields can be greatly expanded and plopping it into Houghton Mifflin sort of cheapens its stand-alone notability. As one of the most important publishing houses of the 19th century, it could easily become a full-length (and, maybe someday, featured) article. I'll begin some clean-up on Ticknor and Fields and see how it looks with references, etc. If I can't get a more respectable article, it would be worth reconsidering the merge. --Midnightdreary (talk) 17:00, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

I disagree with the merge proposal. Ticknor and Fields was an extraordinary notable company in its own right, jump-starting the careers of important nineteenth century American authors. Its importance was not just as a precursor to Houghton Mifflin. BPK (talk) 14:34, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

I disagree with the merge proposal. This is not an article about the history of Houghton Mifflin, it's an article about an extraordinarily important publishing company of the mid-1800s. In many ways Ticknor and Fields is more important than Houghton Mifflin. It is every bit as worthy of its own article as Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation. Anyone reading Matthew Pearl's bestselling mysteries (The Dante Club, The Last Dickens) is going to be looking for Ticknor and Fields, not Houghton Mifflin. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:29, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Gone today?

Looks like it's gone tits up - Fine Gael TD George Lee says 'It has been reported to me that the education materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has failed'. But is this EMPG, or the group, or just Houghton Mifflin Harcourt? [1] Little grape (talk) 15:59, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Please see details on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMPG and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_O'Callaghan where I have tried to document the latest news on Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's parent company EMPG and its Chairman/CEO Barry_O'Callaghan. Appreciate any corrections. In fact, perhaps EMPG and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt could be merged? Though assuming only one will survive, perhaps not! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.138.251.194 (talk) 10:16, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Good job; it was always odd that such a high profile Irishman didn't have a dedicated WP article. I noticed a couple of typos, also there's reliable press reports which suggest he owes 200m euros personally to Anglo bank [2] but appears to have zero assets now that he's lost all his equity? Little grape (talk) 10:29, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Updates Required

I propose the following edits to remove inaccuracies:
•Update the HMH logo to reflect the company's current title (Harcourt is not included in the current logo)
•Change "type" from "subsidiary" to "private" (since its recapitalization in March 2010, the company is no longer a subsidiary of Education Media Publishing Group); remove "parent" information
•Add other executive leadership members to the "Key People" section (the ones listed on HMH's website: http://hmhco.com/leadership.html)
•Remove "Publishing Company" from the company title (the company's name has been shortened to "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt")
•Update the number of employees from "3,500" to "4,000"
•Under "Riverdeep merger with Houghton Mifflin," update last sentence of first paragraph to reflect past tense: "Tony Lucki, a former non-executive director of Riverdeep, remained in his position as the company's Chief Executive Officer until April of 2009."
•Remove "has" from the second paragraph under this heading
•Under "Restructuring," modify the second paragraph to reflect past tense: "The restructuring materially impacted the shareholders of EMPG, the former holding company of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt."
•Under "Recapitalization in 2010," modify content to reflect past tense
•Under "Locations," remove all divisions after "corporate headquarters" for "Boston" (School and College no longer exist, and International is headquartered in Dublin)
•Under "Locations," replace "Digital Research and Development" with "Innovation in Education Group" for "Dublin"
•Under "Locations," add Evanston, Illinois; Geneva, Illinois; Itasca, Illinois; Lewisville, Texas; Rancho Cucamonga, California; Troy, Missouri; New York, New York; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Atlanta, Georgia
•Under "Locations," remove "Great Source Education Group" after "Wilmington, Massachusetts"
Aamicang (talk) 20:50, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Blackstone Group ??

Why did you put this banner down here ? Is Blackstone Group investing in HMH ? -- Spiessens 19:16, 3 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spiessens (talk • contribs)