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10About HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins, one of the largest English-language publishers in the world, is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV). Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing groups around the world including the HarperCollins General Books Group, HarperCollins Children's Books Group, Zondervan, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada, HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand and HarperCollins India. HarperCollins is a broad-based publisher with interests in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children's books, cookbooks, mystery, romance, reference, religious and spiritual books. HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content and create a global digital warehouse to protect the rights of its authors, meet consumer demand and generate additional business opportunities.
HarperCollins Publishers Headquarter Location
10 East 53rd Street
New York, New York, 10022,
United States
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Latest HarperCollins Publishers News
Mar 9, 2022
A+ New Delhi [India], March 9 (ANI/PR Newswire): HarperCollins India is releasing The Maverick Effect: The Inside Story of India’s IT Revolution this March. The book follows the untold story of how a band of dreamers made India the global IT leader, written by NASSCOM’s founding member and its first elected chairman, Harish Mehta. “The Maverick Effect is a definitive and authoritative biography of NASSCOM as recounted by one who led the creation of NASSCOM in 1988 and has been nurturing it like his precious child even after 33 years to the day. Future historians will rely on this work when they do research on the role of NASSCOM in removing the bureaucratic hurdles during the initial years of the software services industry in India.”- NR Narayana Murthy, Co-founder, Infosys “Three decades ago, NASSCOM had a vision for India’s fledgling tech industry. In bringing it to fruition, the lives of millions were improved and the destiny of our country was transformed. Today, we need to create a new vision for the coming decades. Should anyone today want to learn how such a feat can be achieved, they will find no shortage of inspiration in the pages of this book.”- N Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons “Harish Mehta, in this exceptionally written book, provides his unique insights on the tireless efforts it took to set up NASSCOM, which played a pivotal role in enhancing the IT sector’s global brand image and in helping create the great Indian middle class. I particularly liked how he quotes ‘nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions’ and uses it as an allegory to talk about NASSCOM.”- Deepak S Parekh, Chairman, HDFC Ltd “Harish brings together the incredible contribution of this industry to not only Indian economic growth but also to refurbishing India’s global image. The book is a must-read for those who wish to make their industry organizations worthy of policymakers’ trust, by making individual firm profit maximization subservient to national interests.”- Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman Niti Aayog “Engaging, informative and inspiring. As the start-up ecosystem transitions to scaling up, we need to learn from the extraordinary journey of the Indian IT services industry.”- Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital The customs officer told me that I needed to leave samples of what I was exporting with him. I was forced to leave the floppy disk of the software with him. The diligent officer immediately planted a stapler pin through the floppy disk and attached it to the form, thereby destroying the media and rendering it unreadable. For the longest time, everybody’s understanding of software differed immensely. This confusion continued into the 1980s, and it was getting challenging to grow the business. The more I met young software entrepreneurs, the more I realized that my frustration was not unique. Something had to be done.’ In the mid-1970s, a young, twenty-something man living an American dream threw away a lucrative job as a database manager and came back to India. At that time, India had no IT industry to speak of; computers were a novelty, and the nation was trapped in socio-economic backwardness and a labyrinthine License Raj. As young Harish Mehta struggled to find his stride, he realized that India’s nascent and fragmented IT industry acutely needed a unified voice that could speak to the government, change laws and harness the country’s potential. In an unlikely alliance of headstrong and competing young professionals, he united other IT entrepreneurs to envision a world-beating association that would revolutionize Indian IT: NASSCOM. The Maverick Effect is the extraordinary story of this band of dreamers who joined hands to transform a nation while also changing the lens through which the world looked at India. Valued at a staggering $200 billion today, the Indian IT industry directly employs more than four million people. It is the largest forex earner and has helped millions of Indians beat poverty and rise to the middle-income group. Honest, open and inspiring, Harish Mehta’s journey proves that no vision is impossible if unrelenting, kindred spirits unite. Harish Mehta says, “The impact that NASSCOM and the Indian IT industry have had on India is unparalleled. I have often been asked about the inside story of how NASSCOM was started. I realised that I could not point anyone to a definitive source. And thus, I took upon myself to write a book, which is aptly titled, ‘The Maverick Effect’. The book talks about some of the fiercest of competitors collaborated, thereby creating an unstoppable flywheel that is India’s technology industry. Sachin Sharma, Executive Editor, HarperCollins India, says: ‘The world today understands and respects the might of India’s IT industry but there’s an incredible backstory behind how this global leadership was achieved. The Maverick Effect presents a brilliant inside account of how some competitors got together, created an industry body called NASSCOM and transformed a nation. Here is a book that will inspire generations to come. Harish Mehta is the founder and executive chairperson of Onward Technologies Ltd. He is the founding member and the first elected chairman of NASSCOM, a not-for-profit representing India’s burgeoning IT industry and considered among the world’s most exemplary associations. As a prominent angel investor, he also spends time mentoring young entrepreneurs and start-ups. For further information please write to sagiri.dixit@harpercollins.co.in Non-fiction/Memoir/Leadership | Rs 699 HarperCollins Publishers India is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers. HarperCollins India publishes some of the finest writers from the Indian Subcontinent and around the world, publishing approximately 200 new books every year, with a print and digital catalogue of more than 2,000 titles across 10 imprints. Its authors have won almost every major literary award including the Man Booker Prize, JCB Prize, DSC Prize, New India Foundation Award, Atta Galatta Prize, Shakti Bhatt Prize, Gourmand Cookbook Award, Publishing Next Award, Tata Literature Live Award, Gaja Capital Business Book Prize, BICW Award, Sushila Devi Award, Prabha Khaitan Woman’s Voice Award, Sahitya Akademi Award and the Crossword Book Award. HarperCollins India has been awarded the Publisher of the Year Award three times: at Publishing Next in 2015, and at Tata Literature Live! in 2016 and 2018. This story is provided by PRNewswire. ANI will not be responsible in any way for the content of this article. (ANI/PR Newswire) This story is auto-generated from a syndicated feed. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content. Subscribe to our channels on YouTube & Telegram Why news media is in crisis & How you can fix it India needs free, fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism even more as it faces multiple crises. But the news media is in a crisis of its own. There have been brutal layoffs and pay-cuts. The best of journalism is shrinking, yielding to crude prime-time spectacle. ThePrint has the finest young reporters, columnists and editors working for it. Sustaining journalism of this quality needs smart and thinking people like you to pay for it. Whether you live in India or overseas, you can do it here .
HarperCollins Publishers Investments
4 Investments
HarperCollins Publishers has made 4 investments. Their latest investment was in Qlovi as part of their Unattributed VC on December 12, 2012.
HarperCollins Publishers Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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12/12/2012 | Unattributed VC | Qlovi | Yes | 1 | ||
5/24/2010 | Series C | |||||
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Date | 12/12/2012 | 5/24/2010 | ||
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Round | Unattributed VC | Series C | Other Investors | Other Investors |
Company | Qlovi | |||
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New? | Yes | |||
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Sources | 1 |
HarperCollins Publishers Portfolio Exits
2 Portfolio Exits
HarperCollins Publishers has 2 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was aNobii on June 12, 2012.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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6/12/2012 | Corporate Majority - II | 1 | |||
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Exit | Corporate Majority - II | |
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Sources | 1 |
HarperCollins Publishers Acquisitions
5 Acquisitions
HarperCollins Publishers acquired 5 companies. Their latest acquisition was Egmont Publishing - Book Division on April 02, 2020.
Date | Investment Stage | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Total Funding | Note | Sources |
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4/2/2020 | Acquired | 1 | ||||
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6/8/2010 |
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Sources | 1 |
HarperCollins Publishers Partners & Customers
10 Partners and customers
HarperCollins Publishers has 10 strategic partners and customers. HarperCollins Publishers recently partnered with National Literacy Trust on February 2, 2021.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
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2/11/2021 | Partner | United Kingdom | HarperCollins Publishers joins forces with The National Literacy Trust , Glasgow Life and Mayor 's Fund For London to Donate 50,000 books to families during Covid . | 1 | |
10/7/2020 | Licensor | United States | FOX News Media has signed a three book deal with HarperCollins Publishers , announced Suzanne Scott , Chief Executive Officer of FOX News Media . | 1 | |
10/7/2020 | Partner | United States | Fox News Media Moves Into Book Publishing, Sets 3-Book Deal Fox News , a partnership with HarperCollins Publishers ' Broadside Books , will launch with a three-book deal . | 1 | |
7/8/2020 | Licensee | ||||
7/15/2019 | Partner |
Date | 2/11/2021 | 10/7/2020 | 10/7/2020 | 7/8/2020 | 7/15/2019 |
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Country | United Kingdom | United States | United States | ||
News Snippet | HarperCollins Publishers joins forces with The National Literacy Trust , Glasgow Life and Mayor 's Fund For London to Donate 50,000 books to families during Covid . | FOX News Media has signed a three book deal with HarperCollins Publishers , announced Suzanne Scott , Chief Executive Officer of FOX News Media . | Fox News Media Moves Into Book Publishing, Sets 3-Book Deal Fox News , a partnership with HarperCollins Publishers ' Broadside Books , will launch with a three-book deal . | ||
Sources | 1 | 1 | 1 |
HarperCollins Publishers Team
14 Team Members
HarperCollins Publishers has 14 team members, including current Chief Executive Officer, President, Brian Murray.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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Brian Murray | Chief Executive Officer, President | Current | |
Chantal Restivo-Alessi | Chief Executive Officer | Current | |
Josh Marwell | President | Current | |
David Alford | Warner Music Group, and PwC | Chief Financial Officer | Current |
Janet Gervasio | Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President | Current |
Name | Brian Murray | Chantal Restivo-Alessi | Josh Marwell | David Alford | Janet Gervasio |
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Work History | Warner Music Group, and PwC | ||||
Title | Chief Executive Officer, President | Chief Executive Officer | President | Chief Financial Officer | Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President |
Status | Current | Current | Current | Current | Current |
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