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"Diversity and Inclusion" - 92 Total Result(s)
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HP’s Accelerated Development Program
In 1992, Hewlett-Packard launched the Accelerated Development Program (ADP) to help grow the number of women and minorities in senior management positions. The program annually featured 50-60 high-per ...
Harry Portwood teaching an electronics class at the Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1975.
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HP’s Faculty Loan Program at HBCUs
In 1975, Hewlett-Packard launched a faculty loan program in which HP engineers taught at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with the company’s assistance. Harry Portwood spent at lea ...
Photo of Art Fong, the earliest known Asian-American engineer to work for a Silicon Valley tech company.
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HP’s First Asian-American Engineer
Hewlett-Packard operated on a policy of nondiscrimination from the very beginning, which was almost unheard of when the company was founded in 1939. The company’s decision would help set a tone for et ...
Ken Coleman, personnel manager at HP, speaks to an unnamed employee in 1972.
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HP’s First Employee Resource Group
Ken Coleman joined HP as a personnel manager in 1972. Soon thereafter, he co-founded (with Howard Smith, not pictured) Hewlett-Packard’s first employee resource group, a network of Black functional ma ...
A company announcement from Dave Packard announcing the company's first Equal Opportunities Manager.
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HP’s First Equal Opportunities Manager
Hewlett-Packard always had a nondiscrimination policy in hiring, but its understanding of how best to address racial inequality evolved continuously throughout its existence. In 1968, CEO Dave Packard ...
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HP’s History of Nondiscrimination
Learn about the significance of the company’s nondiscrimination policy and see the original document itself inside the Hewlett-Packard Company Archives.
Two women working on the production line assembling Hewlett-Packard Integral luggable PCs in 1985.
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Integral Employees: Women at HP
Female employees on the production line assembled Hewlett-Packard Integral portable PCs. No matter the decade or product, women played a critical role for production at Hewlett-Packard — by 1985, the ...
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International Tech Women’s Conference
Throughout the 1990s, the HP Technical Women’s Conference gained popularity in America. Meanwhile, women who worked for HP Europe started gatherings of their own to connect and share ideas. Helen Well ...
Jane Evans operating equipment on the cover of the Hewlett-Packard Journal in January 1975.
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Jane Evans: Women Engineers at HP
Jane Evans began her 25-year career at HP as an applications engineer in 1965. She was the first female engineer HP hired with her degree-in-hand, but that wasn’t Evans’ first milestone. When she earn ...
Photo of Jean Kimes.
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Jean Kimes: Minority Education Leader
In 1968 Jean Kimes took a leave of absence from the Microwave Division to work with adult and juvenile minority education programs in San Francisco, where she spent much of her time helping her studen ...