Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Leadership

Led by President, CEO and Director Linda Zecher, HMH’s executive team brings a unique combination of vision and experience in education, technology and media. With backgrounds in digital innovation at global technology leaders such as Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Thomson Reuters, Monster, and CBS, our leadership team brings passion and drive to the transformation of our company and our industry.

HMH's Executive Team for more information on HMH's executive team

Social Impact

We recognize the importance of supporting our employees and local communities, prioritizing sustainable business processes, and addressing the social challenges that face our customers around the world. To help drive our social impact, our Corporate Social Responsibility work is aligned to three guiding pillars—Giving Voice to a variety of education stakeholders, Promoting Access to Ideas and nourishing curiosity, and Removing Barriers to learning.

Key initiatives include:

• Financial and In-Kind Contributions: HMH demonstrates its commitment to changing lives through learning by investing our funds and best-in-class content in communities with limited access to resources.  Our partnerships are about more than a simple donation, rather we seek opportunities where a combination of HMH funds, products, and thought leadership can help facilitate change and help close the opportunity gap.  In Boston, our HQ location, we continue to grow our long-term partnership with the Boston Celtics to inspire learning and increase student achievement locally, and we also work in tandem with the Boston Children’s Museum to highlight the challenges and opportunities of early learning and parenting in the digital age. 
• Community Investment Councils: HMH is proud to support Community Investment Councils (CICs) in 12 major offices and distribution centers across the US and Ireland. CICs are cross-functional employee groups that engage colleagues in volunteer opportunities and charitable campaigns that improve the communities where they live and work.
• Volunteerism:  Our Volunteer Time Off (VTO) policy provides benefits-eligible employees with two work days of paid volunteer time per calendar year to serve charitable organizations that matter to them. Many employees choose to use their VTO days during HMH Volunteer Week, a Company-wide campaign to improve the communities where we live and work. Learn more here.
• Matching Gifts: Through the Matching Gifts Program, HMH demonstrates support for the causes and organizations that are meaningful to our employees. Each time an employee contributes at least $25 to an eligible charitable organization, HMH will double his or her impact by making an equal contribution to that organization (up to $1,000 per employee annually).
• Sustainability: Rainforest Action Network ranked HMH second in its list of the 10 most environmentally responsible global publishing companies.Our Paper Procurement and Usage Policy outlines a series of goals and actions related to how we source and utilize the materials that go into our best-in-class offerings. Currently, 61 percent of all the paper we purchase is recycled, and 60 percent of the paper we procure domestically for use in Consumer and Trade products is FSC certified.

Benefits

At HMH, we are proud to have a positive, welcoming workplace. We understand how important it is that our team members feel supported and confident - our employees are at their best when they are healthy and happy and secure. This is why we are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits and perks.

For detailed information about our benefits plan, please see Our Benefits Brochure.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our continued success requires that our company reaches more customers in more languages and countries than ever before. Our customers increasingly demand products and services that are relevant to their information needs and respectful of their cultures. To meet these needs, we must ensure that we are sensitive to—and accepting of—the diverse nature of our customers around the world.

We believe that one way of meeting our customers' needs is through diversity in the workplace. Changing demographics in the US and elsewhere fundamentally affect the make-up of the HMH employee population. We must ensure that our culture, attitude and systems are in alignment with these changes.

We want to develop and encourage the potential contributions that all our people bring to the Company. In order to do this, we must first recognize the value of the broad and rich variety of experiences, ideas, and skills our colleagues offer the business.

We believe that there is an ongoing business benefit to our customers, employees, and communities when the Company is not only free of illegal discrimination but also inclusive with a diverse workplace.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all of its employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, ancestry, religion, creed, disabilities, military status, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, national origin, genetic information, or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law with regard to any term or condition of employment. 

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