- Harold McGraw III
Harold McGraw III is chairman, president and chief executive officer of The McGraw-Hill Companies. He was elected chairman in December 1999; chief executive officer in 1998; and president and chief operating officer in 1993. He has been a member of The McGraw-Hill Companies' Board of Directors since 1987. Mr. McGraw has led a transformation of the Corporation, consolidating 15 diverse units into three focused business segments, each one a market leader. - John D. Anderson
John D. Anderson, Jr. (October 1, 1937) is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Anderson is active and known for his professional and educational activities both nationally and internationally. He has given over 40 short courses to the major aerospace companies, the Air Force Academy, … - Roger Kamien
Roger Kamien is the author of the book "Music: An Appreciation". A book intended to show students the basics and the importance of music. His book is considered more textbook like because its use mostly in high school level work or in higher education levels. The book was published by McGraw-Hill and provides learners with classical and modern type of music and how to understand music. Kamien studied at Queens (NY) College. - Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst--where he directed the Writing Program. He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Franconia College, Evergreen State College, and State University of New York, Stony Brook--where he also directed the Writing Program. - Jeffrey A. Krames
Jeffrey A. Krames is an American business author and the editorial director of Portfolio, the business book imprint of The Penguin Group [the second largest trade publisher in the world]. He is the former head of the trade division at McGraw-Hill, one of the United States' largest publishing firms. As former Vice President and Publisher of McGraw-Hill's trade business books division, Jeffrey Krames has personally edited and published more than 275 business books, … - Roger Schank
Dr. Roger C. Schank , FAAAI is one of the world's leading researchers in AI, learning theory, cognitive science, and the building of virtual learning environments. He is President and CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to to design and implement low-cost story-based learning by doing curricula in schools, universities, and corporations. Socratic Arts works with universities and corporations to develop customized degree and certificate programs. - James H. McGraw
James Herbert McGraw (1860-1948), born in Harmony, New York, was co-founder of what is now The McGraw-Hill Companies. He was the president of McGraw-Hill from 1917 to 1928. The McGraw Publishing Company and the Hill Publishing Company merged their book departments in 1909. - Malcolm Muir
Malcolm Muir (1885 - 1979) was a U.S. magazine industrialist. He served as president of McGraw-Hill Publishing from 1928 to 1937. During his tenure as president, he helped create "BusinessWeek" magazine in 1929, the same year that McGraw-Hill stock was publicly traded for the first time. He also served as the editor-in-chief and president of "Newsweek" magazine between 1937 and 1959. - Edward B. Rust Jr.
Edward B. Rust Jr. is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, Illinois. He is also president and chief executive officer of State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, State Farm Life Insurance Company and other principal State Farm affiliates. A native of Illinois, Rust joined State Farm in 1975 at the Dallas, TX, regional office. - Carey Holzman
Carey Holzman (born June 23, 1968 in Detroit, Michigan) is an author, freelance journalist and co-host of Craig Crossman's nationally syndicated radio show, "Computer America". Holzman grew up in Oak Park, Michigan and moved to Glendale, Arizona in 1980, where he lives to this day. Holzman is the author of "The Healthy PC" by McGraw-Hill, and is a regular contributor to CMP Media's TechBuilder site and Tom's Hardware Guide. - Bryan Bergeron
Bryan Bergeron, MD, is an author of numerous books in the fields of medicine, computers, biotechnology, and business. He teaches in the HST Division of Harvard Medical School and MIT and is president of Archetype Technologies, Inc. - Michael Payne
Michael Payne is the host and interior designer of Home and Garden Television's show Designing for the Sexes. The show was aired from 1998 to 2003, and featured Michael navigating design conflicts between couples with conflicting tastes. Known for his vibrant British charm and his keen sense of design, Michael delighted fans by humorously exposing the gender-based quirks of the show's guests. Each show ended with a joyous reveal of the final room, … - Joan Bauer
Joan Bauer, born July 12, 1951 in Illinois, is an award-winning author of young adult literature currently living in Brooklyn. The main characters in her books are typically teenagers who are dealing with complicated family issues, such as alcoholism, abandonment, illness, and self-esteem issues, but such issues are faced with a light touch and humor is added in to lighten it up. Before publishing her first book, Bauer worked for the Chicago Tribune, McGraw-Hill books, … - Robert S. McElvaine
Robert S. McElvaine is Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where he has taught for thirty years. He is the author of nine books: *"Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man" (1983) *"The Great Depression: America, … - Elliot Abrams
Elliot Abrams (born May 31, 1947), a meteorologist, is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Abrams is an employee of AccuWeather.com since 1967, after graduating from Pennsylvania State University with both a bachelor's and a master's degree in meteorology. A charter member of the Chi Epsilon Pi (national meteorology honor society), he is now a Senior Vice President at AccuWeather Inc. - George Bull
George Bull is an English translator, author and journalist. He has translated six volumes for the Penguin Classics series: Benvenuto Cellini's "Autobiography", "The Book of the Courtier" by Castiglione, Vasari's "Lives of the Artists" (two volumes), "The Prince" by Machiavelli and Pietro Aretino's "Selected Letters". He is also Consultant Editor to the Penguin Business Series. - Mel Byars
Mel Byars (b. Columbia, South Carolina, September 1, 1938), American design historian Byars studied journalism in the 1950s in his native South Carolina. He subsequently settled in New York City and eventually became active as an art director or creative director for a number of publishers, such as Prentice-Hall and McGraw-Hill, and for advertising agencies, including Leber Katz Partners (subsumed into Foote, Cone & Belding, the world's second oldest advertising agency, … - Bill Woodcock
Bill Woodcock (born San Francisco, California, United States, 1971-08-16) is research director of Packet Clearing House, a non-profit research institute dedicated to understanding and supporting Internet traffic exchange technology, policy, and economics. Bill entered the field of Internet routing research in 1989, while serving as the network architect and operations director for an international multiprotocol service-provision backbone network. - Edward C. Banfield
Edward C. Banfield (1916-1999) was a distinguished political scientist, best known as the author of "The Moral Basis of a Backward Society" (1958), and "The Unheavenly City" (1970). One of the leading conservative scholars of his generation, Banfield was an adviser to Republican presidents (Nixon, Ford, and Reagan). Banfield began his academic career at the University of Chicago, where he was a friend and colleague of Leo Strauss. - John A. Hill
John A. Hill was a co-founder of The McGraw-Hill Comanies. In the 1880s Hill worked as an editor at "Locomotive Engineer". Over the next few years he would produce several technical and trade publications, eventually forming his own company, "The Hill Publishing Company", in 1902. Hill had known James H. McGraw, who had established "The McGraw Publishing Company" in 1899, for some time and the two men shared similar interests. - Barbara Epstein
Barbara Epstein was a literary editor and a founding co-editor of the "New York Review of Books". Epstein, née Zimmerman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to a Jewish-American family, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1949. Ms. Epstein rose to prominence as the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl", among other books. She then worked at Dutton, McGraw-Hill and "The Partisan Review". - Julie Tilsner
Julie Tilsner is an American author of humor books dealing with themes of women's experiences, children, and family. Her books have been published by McGraw-Hill, Bantam Books, NTC Publishing Group, and Ten Speed Press. Tilsner is also a journalist, and was on the staff of "BusinessWeek". As of 2006, she is a Contributing Editor for "Parenting Magazine". - Brian Wesbury
Brian S. Wesbury is a prominent American economist and economic forecaster. He holds an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Montana. He began his career in 1982 at the Harris Bank in Chicago. He served as Vice President and Economist for the Chicago Corporation and then as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist for Griffin, Kubik, Stephens, & Thompson, a Chicago Investment Bank. - Timothy Olsen
Timothy Olsen is an American high school student and business author who at the age of 13 wrote "The Teenage Investor: How To Start Early, Invest Often and Build Wealth" which was published by McGraw-Hill in 2003. Olsen, who resides in New Jersey, began investing at age 8 and has since become an advisor on financial matters for children and teens. - Brian Alvey
Brian Alvey along with Jason Calacanis co-founded the publishing company Weblogs, Inc., home to such blogs as Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TV Squad Cinematical and Slashfood. Time Warner's America Online purchased Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005. In November 2006, AOL also purchased the blogging platform Blogsmith which Alvey built. Blogsmith is used to power Weblogs, Inc. and other AOL blogs such as TMZ.com. - Irene Craigmile Bolam
Irene Craigmile Bolam (b. 1 October 1904 - d. 7 July 1982) was a New York banker and resident of New Jersey. In 1970, a book which was soon widely discredited set forth a claim that she was Amelia Earhart. She denied the claim, took legal action against the publisher and the book was withdrawn. - Espen Haug
Espen Gaarder Haug is an author, quantitative trader and arbitrageur specializing in options and other derivatives. He holds a Ph.D. degree from NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). He is best known for his book "The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas" 2nd edition McGraw-Hill 2006. He is also a regular columnist for Wilmott Magazine. Espen G. Haug has worked as a trader for J.P. Morgan Chase in New York City, Chemical Banking, Amaranth Advisors, … - Paul Armentano
Paul Armentano has served for over ten years as a researcher and policy analyst for NORML and the NORML Foundation in Washington, DC. Mr. Armentano's writing has appeared in over 300 magazines, newspapers, and online journals, including The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Reason (magazine), Congressional Quarterly, and Playboy. His political commentaries have been published by numerous think tanks and foundations, … - Birdsall Viault
Birdsall S. Viault is Professor of History at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina. He has also taught at Adelphi University, which is where he had previously attained his B.S. and M.A. degrees. Further pursuing his education, he succeeded at gaining an M.A. and Ph.D. in history while studying at Duke University. Professor Viault is the author of several McGraw-Hill books. His articles and reviews have appeared in journals in the United States and Europe. - Maris Martinsons
Maris Martinsons is a professor of management at the City University of Hong Kong and research director of the Pacific Rim Institute for the Studies of Management. He was the first double winner of a university-wide teaching excellence award in Hong Kong. Maris received his B.A.Sc. (Engineering Science) and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Warwick. - Cecilia Landerreche
María Cecilia Landerreche Gómez Morín is the current Director of the "Sistema de Desarrollo Integral de la Familia" (DIF), a Mexican public institution of social assistance. Landerreche has worked in the editorials Jus, McGraw-Hill and MacMillan. She has also worked in the Gómez Morín Cultural Center in the ITAM. In December 2006 President Felipe Calderón designated her Director of the DIF to replace former incumbent Ana Rosa Payán. - Eldridge Haynes
Eldridge Haynes (1904-1976) is best remembered as the founder of Business International Corporation and a spokesman for free trade and advocate for the international business community. His early career in journalism took him to McGraw-Hill, and then eventually into starting a new magazine called Modern Industry. Recognizing that American companies were increasingly investing abroad, he founded Business International in 1953. By the time of his death in 1976, … - Raymond Louis Wilder
Raymond Louis Wilder was an American mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests. - Pius Cheung
Pius Cheung (born 1982) is a marimbist and composer. - David Gallaher
David Matthew Gallaher: (born 1975) is Honolulu-born, American writer, who spent most of his life operating out of Brooklyn, New York and Baltimore, Maryland. During his formative years, David didn't have a television. His first exposure to the 'moving picture' was in 1978 with the first Superman film. In 1980, when his family got a television, … - Amos Urban Shirk
Amos Urban Shirk was an American businessman, author and reader of encyclopedias. As a businessman he worked in the food industry. He wrote "Marketing Through Food Brokers", published in 1939 by McGraw-Hill. He invented a synthetic chicle and introduced vitamin capsules to grocery stores. He was also renowned as a prodigious reader. Shirk read the entire 23-volume 1911 "Encyclopædia Britannica" from cover to cover in four and a half years, … - Jo Kittinger
Jo Linda Susenbach Kittinger (born October 7, 1955 in Miami, Florida) is an Alabama native known for her many children's books and for her participation in many local, national and international organizations. She is an active member of the "Leaky Pens" (a weekly book authors group), SCBWI (The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) and she is the Co-Regional Advisor of the Southern Breeze chapter of SCBWI. - Ken Leistner
Ken Leistner is a strength training writer, personal trainer, NFL strength consultant, and chiropractor. He is often known as "Dr. Ken". In 1992 Leistner founded the Iron Island Gym with Ralph Raiola on Long Island. The Iron Island Gym was directed by the bodybuilding and powerlifting traditions, "dedicated to getting people strong and muscular" (from the gym's web page). Leistner sold his share of the gym in 1998. He is married to the former Kathy Tuite, … - Carl Salser
Carl Walter Salser, Jr. (16 August, 1921 - 11 April 2006) was an American author, businessperson and educator. Salser was born in Emporia, Kansas. He grew up in Corvallis, Oregon after his father left Kansas State Teacher's College (now Emporia State University) to become Dean of Education at Oregon State College (now Oregon State University (OSU)). He graduated from Corvallis High School and enrolled at Oregon State College. - Jim K. Omura
Jim Omura is the commitment lead for the California Institute of Technology Commitment. A UCLA professor of Electrical Engineering for 15 years, with stints in Australia and Brazil as a visiting professor, and founder of two Silicon Valley companies, Jim has extensive experience as an educator and also in the business world bringing technical products and services to market.
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