Houghton Mifflin Company
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| Parent company | Vivendi (2001–2002) |
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| Traded as | NASDAQ: HMHC |
| Founded | 1832 |
| Founder | Henry Oscar Houghton, George Mifflin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Key people | L. Gordon Crovitz, Interim CEO |
| Publication types | Books, software |
| Imprints | Clarion, Graphia, Mariner, Sandpiper, HMH Books for Young Readers |
| Number of employees | 4,000+ |
| Official website | www |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (/ˈhoʊtən ˈmɪflɪn ˈhɑːrkɔːrt/) is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.
The company was formerly known as Houghton Mifflin Company but changed its name following the 2007 acquisition of Harcourt Publishing. Prior to March 2010, it was a subsidiary of Education Media and Publishing Group Limited, an Irish-owned holding company registered in the Cayman Islands and formerly known as Riverdeep.
In 1832, William Ticknor and James Thomas Fields had gathered an impressive list of writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. The duo formed a close relationship with Riverside Press, a Boston printing company owned by Henry Oscar Houghton. Shortly after, Houghton also founded a publishing company with partner George Mifflin. In 1880, Ticknor and Fields and Houghton and Mifflin merged their operations, combining the literary works of writers with the expertise of a publisher and creating a new partnership named Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The company still had debt from when it merged from Houghton, Osgood and Company, so it decided to add partners. In 1884, James D. Hurd, the son of Melancthon Hurd became a partner. Three people in 1888 became partners as well: James Murray Kay, Thurlow Weed Barnes, and Henry Oscar Houghton, Jr.
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