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“Management by Walking Around”
Bill and Dave practiced an innovative management style that included “Management by Walking Around” or MBWA, shown here being practiced in the company’s Loveland, Colorado, facility. MBWA assumed that ...
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A Bonsai for the Boss
In 1977, Kyoko Sagimori of Hewlett-Packard’s Santa Clara division gave Hewlett-Packard a glass bonsai tree. A glassblower who pursued art in her spare time, Sagimori crafted the item on lunch breaks a ...
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A Diversifying Workforce: HP’s Growth
Wartime production demands led Hewlett-Packard’s workforce to grow from 3 employees in 1940 to around 200 by 1945. The combination of a national labor shortage and the company’s nondiscriminatory hiri ...
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A Future President: Ronald Reagan Visits HP
Ronald Reagan visited Hewlett-Packard during his 1966 gubernatorial campaign. He would win the election less than one month later.
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A Modernist Welcome at Page Mill
Artist Mary Henry returned to Hewlett-Packard to design mosaic murals for the new headquarters at 1501 Page Mill Road. Her bold abstractions drew directly from the world of electronics — waveforms, si ...
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A Walk in the Park: New HQ
A team of architects and engineers studied blueprints on the site of the new Hewlett-Packard Stanford Industrial Park (later renamed Stanford Research Park) at 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto. The comp ...
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Barcelona Business: HP Production Facilities
By the 1980s, Hewlett-Packard’s production facilities had evolved drastically, but the company’s peripherals division in Barcelona demonstrated how the emphasis on open floor plans and individual spac ...
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Bill and Dave Meet at the Mosaic
In this photo from 1961, HP founders Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett are shown in discussion before Mary Henry’s mosaic mural at the company’s new headquarters. Such scenes were common, as employees and ...
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Building a Presence in Taiwan
Hewlett-Packard’s Taiwanese subsidiary was established in 1971. By the early 1980s, Hewlett-Packard Taiwan had grown large enough to warrant a bespoke office building, the Hewlett-Packard Taiwan build ...
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Built in Böblingen: HP’s Manufacturing
Hewlett-Packard Company established its first manufacturing plant outside Palo Alto in this former knitting factory in Böblingen, Germany, in 1959.