The HP Way |
"We have trust and respect for
individuals..." |
"The Great Innovators" |
Business Week: "...the
birthplace of a new approach to management" |
"Great
Garages" |
Forbes: "...the key to the
greatness of Bill Hewlett and David Packard was that they held
no attachment to things, only people." |
"Founding
Fathers" |
Stanford Magazine: "...their
contribution... was as much organizational as technological." |
"Getting back
to the HP Way"
|
"In my personal experiences with
Dave and Bill, you certainly had opportunities to give your
inputs. But once that was done, a decision was made.."
"...studying and analyzing without implementation,
procrastination caused by trying to achieve consensus and
allowing everybody involved in a decision to have veto power on
every other person's business... those are the kind of values
that I'd like to see go away." --HP
board member and retired executive Dick Hackborn in May 1999.
More
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"Origins"
watch
watch |
HP's 2005 film -- photographs, oral histories,
film footage, and interviews with former employees |
HP History and Facts |
HP: Timeline, Virtual Museum |
Bill Hewlett on Management |
"The Human Side Of Management" by
Bill Hewlett -- on private site of Ed Sharpe |
Don't
lock Lab Stock |
Example
of "We have trust and respect for individuals." |
Packard on Management |
David Packard's "11 Simple Rules...
for getting along with others" -- 1958 |
HP Way |
"The HP Way was a way of life" |
HP Way |
When -- and why -- HP started capitalizing the "W" in
"HP Way" in 1995. (Page 2)
|
Fantasia (pages 8-11) |
HP's very first instrument sale -- eight of Bill's audio
oscillators to the Walt Disney Company. "Fantasia
premiered on November 13, 1940, at New York's Broadway Theater,
one of only 12 theaters in the world specially equipped to run
it ...three sound horns behind the picture screen instead of the
usual one, plus 56 small house speakers placed strategically
through the auditorium. Disney engineers used HP Model 200B
audio oscillators to test the various channels, recording
equipment and speaker systems in the theaters that showed the
film." |
Agilent History |
Agilent: Timeline |
HP CEOs and Chairmen |
Wikipedia:
Page with links to Wikipedia articles on each HP CEO and
Chairman.
[Note:
Wikipedia is very useful. However, the articles can be written,
rewritten, or edited by anyone -- and therefore may not be accurate or current, often change
dramatically over time, may not cover all aspects of the topic
consistently, and may not be written from a neutral point of
view.] |
HP Garage |
HP: History of the garage and the
first years of the company |
Acquisitions, Divestitures |
HPAA's list of dates when HP
acquired and divested companies |
Employment |
"HP increases its leading product: Ex-HP Employees"
San Jose Mercury, June 1, 2020. |
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Bill Hewlett distributing bonus checks in 1954. |