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Black Employees Reach Out
After HP employee groups received formal charters, it was much easier for them to articulate formal platforms and explain their missions to HP employees. This pamphlet from the Bay Area Black Employee ...
Photo of Bess Stephens (right) and Kevin Hinkston (left), both honored at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference.
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Black Engineers of the Year
In 1999, HP submitted its first employees for consideration at the annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference. The company had been an active supporter of the conference for years, but this w ...
Photo of Robert E. Bob Knowling taken in 2002.
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Black Leadership at HP
By the 21st century, Black leaders were influencing HP from the top down. Robert E. “Bob” Knowling joined HP’s board at a critical juncture in 2000 to help the company revamp its operations. A tech an ...
The July 1968 edition of Measure.
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Breaking the Inequality Loop
In 1968, HP’s diversity efforts underwent a dramatic shift when the company moved from a policy of nondiscrimination to actively working to improve minority representation at HP. To help explain the e ...
Carly Fiorina and Lew Platt seated on a table next to an HP laptop.
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Carly Fiorina Becomes HP’s CEO
Carly Fiorina succeeded Lew Platt as Hewlett-Packard’s CEO in 1999, making her not just the first woman to lead HP, but the first woman to lead a Fortune 50 company. It was a fitting milestone to set ...
Watt's Current cover from April 12, 1946 featuring Caroline Kusske at work.
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Caroline Kusske: A Winding Wiz
Caroline Kusske soldered a connection on a 400A range switch, a winding machine built in the company shops. Kusske retired in 1960 after more than 16 years at Hewlett-Packard Company. “Caroline helped ...
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Protected: Changing Culture with Network Groups
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Hewlett-Packard board member Condoleezza Rice in black clothing at Dave Packard's memorial service in 1996.
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Condoleezza Rice on HP Board
Condoleezza Rice was the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor, the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State and the first woman of color to serve on the Hewlett-Packard board of d ...
Cover of Watt's Current from November 1962 featuring a woman working on a cathode ray tube.
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Constructing a Cathode-Ray Tube
Workers assembled cathode-ray tube electron guns required for the 175A oscilloscope. By the early 1960s, the HP Tube Lab produced virtually all CRTs used in Hewlett-Packard oscilloscopes. Women were a ...
Photo of Ernest Priestly in front of a workstation taken in 1978.
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Creating an Opportunity Loop
HP’s educational and employment initiatives to improve equality sometimes reinforced one other. In 1975, Howard University engineering student Ernest Priestly began working at Hewlett-Packard the summ ...