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Read the original HP Way and HP Corporate Objectives statements on the HPAA website: The HP Way

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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company – by David Packard. Edited by David Kirby with Karen Lewis.
Packard talks frankly about what went well while starting up and over the decades -- and what didn't go well.

The primary source on HP history and the HP Way. Still in print.

"The point is not that every company should necessarily adopt the specifics of the HP Way, but that Hewlett and Packard exemplify the power of building a company based on a framework of principles." --forward to 2006 edition by Jim Collins
Co-author Dave Kirby discusses the project on the independent HP Memory Project site, operated by Ken Kuhn with John Minck.

Collins Hardcover (May 1995) ISBN-10: 0887307477
Collins Paperback (January 2006) ISBN-10: 0060845791 (New forward by Jim Collins.)

What a Mickey Mouse way to start a company.

Article debunks myths and explains HP's role in Fantasia. From “Measure” magazine, 1989. Mickey Mouse (pages 8-11)

Bill & Dave's Memos – Edited by Albert Yuen  Author's LinkedIn profile
Captures Bill and Dave's personalities and management techniques through the memos they wrote as they ran the company.

"I wanted to find out for myself how Bill and Dave ran the company on a daily basis. So I started to spend my off-hour time at the HP archives... As I pored through the boxes of memos, I gained a deeper appreciation of the breadth of the management style that came to be known as the HP Way... Bill and Dave managed to preserve the spirit of the HP Way from the garage to a global operation over the 40+ years that they directly managed the corporation."
"If you take the time to learn about the HP Way, you will see that it constitutes some very sound management practices that are beyond sentimental emotions of days gone by."

Some examples: Hewlett announcing the nine-day fortnight. Packard's forceful memo on MBWA and the open door policy. Hewlett on why HP stopped expanding in the Bay Area. Packard on why a company exists. (The Keysight archives were lost in the 2017 Santa Rosa fire.)

February 2007. ISBN-10: 1424327814

Becoming Hewlett Packard: Why Strategic Leadership Matters – by Robert Burgelman, Webb McKinney, and Philip Meza.

Part II has a detailed chapter on each CEO -- Packard, Hewlett, Young, Platt, Fiorina, Hurd, Apotheker. The challenges each faced and the strategic decisions each made.
(The Whitman section was written as the HP Breakup started -- and therefore, unlike the other parts, without the benefit of hindsight.)
Oxford University Press (December 2016)  Hardcover and Kindle: ISBN-10: 0190640448 

Reader reviews: Amazon   MIT Technology Review article   Computer History Museum discussion with authors of Part II: YouTube

The HP Phenomenon: Innovation and Business Transformation – by Charles House and Raymond Price.

"While primarily a history of Hewlett-Packard, 'The HP Phenomenon' also holds profound lessons for engineers, managers, and organizational leaders hoping to transform their own organizations."
Stronger coverage of the electronic instrument side of HP (now Keysight) than the computer side (now HPInc and HPE.)

Stanford University Press (October 2009) ISBN-10: 0804752869

Authors: Chuck House's blog  

Bill & Dave – by Michael S. Malone.

"...deals not just with both men but their relationship to each other...  and, most of all, how they met each challenge in their careers..." 
"Like everyone else, they sometimes made bad, stupid, or selfish decisions in both their professional and personal lives. They were also men of their time, exhibiting prejudices and moral blind spots that disappoint us today..."
"The HP Way was a hard-nosed business philosophy that combined simple objectives, trust in employees to make the right choices, and ruthless self-appraisal. It created an innovative and ferociously competitive company."

An effort to dramatize HP's history for a popular readership. Some of the key anecdotes are disputed by those involved. Odd factual errors.
Portfolio Hardcover (April 2007) ISBN-10: 1591841526  
Portfolio Paperback (March 2008) ISBN-10: 1591841879 

The Evolving Way: An HP Story – by "Trope."

Coffee-table book sponsored by HPInc. Refers to the HP Way, but does not include it. Hides rather than boasting about HP launching Agilent, Philips Medical, Lumileds, HPE, etc. Only one photo of the HP 3000 -- but several photos of systems from HP rival DEC. Many photos contrast-enhanced, obscured, or poorly reproduced. (See publisher's video or 19 sample images on Amazon.)
Trope Publishing, Chicago (August 2022) ISBN-10: 1951963083