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Robert Maxwell had a formal, business relationship with McGraw‑Hill in 1989: the two companies formed a 50/50 joint venture combining school‑book operations and signed a 15‑year standstill agreement t...
Robert Maxwell’s principal and documented U.S. school‑textbook holding was , which he acquired in the late 1980s and which formed the core of his U.S. textbook interests; that asset was later folded i...
Reporting and commentary allege Robert Maxwell used his ownership of major publishing houses to influence schoolbook content, but contemporary fact-checking and publisher statements find that he inser...
Robert Maxwell is repeatedly alleged to have been involved in the PROMIS software affair by distributing a deliberately altered, or "bugged," version of the PROMIS database program that purportedly en...
Robert Maxwell, the British media proprietor who died in 1991, entered a formal joint venture with McGraw-Hill in 1989 that combined major K–12 textbook assets into Macmillan/McGraw‑Hill School Publis...
Robert Maxwell’s involvement in the textbook and academic-publishing world centered on the acquisition and expansion of Macmillan and Pergamon, giving him control of major educational and scientific i...
The evidence shows Robert Maxwell and his publishing interests were significantly involved in textbook and academic journal publishing in the 1980s, but . Contemporary reporting and later analyses doc...
Clinical evidence on ivermectin’s side effects specifically in cancer patients is extremely limited: human cancer trials are scarce (one small phase I/II trial and a few registries), and most safety c...
Robert Maxwell was a Czech‑born British publisher who built a global media and publishing empire from the 1950s to the 1980s, then died at sea in 1991 amid revelations that his companies were heavily ...
Robert Maxwell built a vast international publishing and newspaper group—Pergamon Press, Mirror Group, Macmillan and others—by aggressive acquisitions and leveraging information businesses, but his em...
Robert Maxwell was a Czechoslovak‑born British publisher, media proprietor and former Member of Parliament who built a large international publishing empire (Pergamon, Mirror Group, Macmillan) and die...
The widely reported figure is that descendants of the Cargill and MacMillan families collectively control roughly 87–90% of Cargill Inc.; multiple reputable outlets and compilations converge on an est...
U.S. educators, publishers and policymakers reacted to Robert Maxwell’s push into U.S. educational publishing through a mix of commercial consolidation, legal challenges, and later remediation tied to...
’s death in November 1991 triggered a rapid unravelling of his publishing empire that directly affected school and academic publishing—banks called in loans, assets including Pergamon and parts of wer...
Robert Maxwell built a sprawling, diversified publishing empire whose core holdings—most consistently documented in the sources provided—include Pergamon Press, the Mirror Group newspapers (notably th...
Robert Maxwell’s ownership shifted several U.S. textbook imprints into larger, consolidated corporate structures and prompted aggressive commercial strategies — notably the 1989 Macmillan/McGraw-Hill ...
Robert Maxwell’s expansion in the 1980s turned Pergamon and related holdings into a major presence in academic, professional and school publishing, culminating in large U.S. acquisitions such as Macmi...
Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991 triggered the collapse and breakup of his publishing empire, including Macmillan, which was sold off in pieces amid revelations of massive debt and fraud; . Investigatio...
assembled control of and other British publications through a long arc of opportunistic acquisitions, in printing and publishing, —including heavy borrowing and intercompany siphoning—and hands-on man...
built his publishing empire by leveraging wartime contacts to acquire and exploit backlists of scientific journals, aggressively expanding through acquisitions and public listings, cultivating a flamb...