* McGraw-Hill *

مک گراهیل

McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial information and analytics. It is the parent company of Standard & Poor''s Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, Platts, J.D. Power and Associates, and is the majority owner of the S&P Dow Jones Indices joint venture.

• 1 Corporate history
• 2 Corporate organization
  • 2.1 Standard & Poor''s Ratings Services
  • 2.2 S&P Capital IQ
  • 2.3 S&P Dow Jones Indices
  • 2.4 Platts
  • 2.5 J.D. Power and Associates
• 3 Presidents of the company
• 4 Acquisitions
• 5 Partnerships
• 6 Books published by McGraw-Hill
• 7 The McGraw-Hill Building
• 8 Connection to the family of George W. Bush
• 9 McGraw-Hill Federal Credit Union
• 10 Awards
• 11 References
• 12 External links

McGraw Hill Financial traces its history back to 1888 when James H. McGraw, co-founder of the company, purchased the American Journal of Railway Appliances. He continued to add further publications, eventually establishing The McGraw Publishing Company in 1899. His co-founder John A. Hill had also produced several technical and trade publications and in 1902 formed his own business, The Hill Publishing Company.

In 1909 both men, having known each other''s interests, agreed upon an alliance and combined the book departments of their publishing companies into The McGraw-Hill Book Company. John Hill served as President, with James McGraw as Vice-President. 1917 saw the merger of the remaining parts of each business into The McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc. In 1986, McGraw-Hill bought out competitor The Economy Company, then the United States'' largest publisher of educational material. The buyout made McGraw-Hill the largest educational publisher in the United States.

In 1979 McGraw-Hill Publishing Company purchased Byte magazine from its owner/publisher Virginia Williamson who then became a vice-president of McGraw-Hill.

McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc became The McGraw-Hill Companies in 1995, as part of a corporate rebranding.

In 2007, McGraw-Hill launched an online study network, GradeGuru.com, which gave McGraw-Hill an opportunity to connect directly with its end users, the students. The site closed on April 29, 2012.

On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced it was selling its entire television station group to The E.W. Scripps Company for $212 million. The sale was completed on December 30, 2011. It had been involved in broadcasting since 1972, when it purchased four television stations from a division of Time Inc.

On November 26, 2012, McGraw-Hill announced it was selling its entire education division to Apollo Global Management for $2.5 billion. On March 22, 2013 it announced it had completed the sale and the proceeds were for $2.4 billion cash.

On May 1, 2013, shareholders of McGraw-Hill voted to change the company''s name to McGraw Hill Financial.

McGraw Hill Financial now organizes its businesses in four units based on the market they are involved in.

Standard & Poor''s provides independent investment research including ratings on various investment instruments.

S&P Capital IQ is a leading provider of multi-asset class and real-time data, research, and analytics to institutional investors, investment and commercial banks, investment advisors and wealth managers, corporations, and universities.

Launched on July 2, 2012, S&P Dow Jones Indices is the world''s largest global resource for index-based concepts, data, and research. It produces the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

S&P Dow Jones Indices calculates over 830,000 indices, publishes benchmarks that provide the basis for 575 ETFs globally with $387 billion in assets invested, and serves as the DNA for $1.5 trillion of the world’s indexed assets.

Platts is a leading global provider of information and a premier source of benchmark price assessments for the energy, petrochemicals, metals, and agriculture markets. Since 1909, Platts has provided intelligence and insights that help customers make sound trading and business decisions and enable commodity markets to perform with greater transparency and efficiency. Platts serves traders, risk managers, analysts and diverse private and public sector commodity professionals in more than 150 countries through a global network of editorial and commercial staff. It has offices in more than 15 cities, including major energy centers such as London, Dubai, Singapore, and Houston, and international business centers such as São Paulo, Shanghai, and New York, where its headquarters is located.

Platts publishes news, research, commentary, market data and analysis, and thousands of daily price assessments which are widely used as benchmarks in the physical and futures markets. Its products and services include real-time news and price information; end-of-day market data; newsletters and reports; geospatial data and maps; conferences; and a weekly television program broadcast in select U.S. markets and online.

J.D. Power and Associates is a global marketing information services company operating in key business sectors including customer satisfaction research, market research, social media research, and performance improvement programs.

Established in 1968, J.D. Power has been listening to consumers and business customers; analyzing their opinions and perceptions; and refining research techniques and study methodologies to offer essential market intelligence in the form of product quality, customer satisfaction, and tracking research available today. The company''s quality and satisfaction measurements are based on responses from millions of consumers annually. J.D. Power conducts work for a wide spectrum of industries around the world including automotive, financial services, insurance, energy, and telecommunications.

• James H. McGraw (1917–1928)
• Johnathan Heflin (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 (1998–2013)
• Douglas L. Peterson (2013–Present)

During the course of its history, the McGraw-Hill Companies has expanded significantly through acquisition, not just within the publishing industry but also into other areas such as financial services (the purchase of Standard & Poor''s in 1966) and broadcasting (the 1972 acquisition of Time-Life Broadcasting).

Note that this list only includes acquisitions made by McGraw-Hill, not its subsidiaries. McGraw-Hill typically does not release financial information regarding its acquisitions or divestitures.

McGraw-Hill has partnered with five other higher-education publishers to create CourseSmart, a company developed to sell college textbooks in eTextbook format on a common platform.

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