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Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard interacting with employees. Hewlett is tinkering with an instrument while the others look on.
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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 ...
Kyoko Sagimori of Hewlett-Packard's Santa Clara division speaks with Dave and Bill in front of the glass bonsai tree.
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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 ...
A photo from 1946 featuring nine female HP employees at work.
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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 ...
A photo of Ronald Reagan speaking with employees during his visit to Hewlett-Packard in 1966
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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.
A team of architects and engineers studying blueprints on the grounds of the HP campus at Stanford Industrial Park.
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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 ...
Photo of HP's Barcelona production floor demonstrating open floor plans and individual space.
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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 ...
A group photo of the Hewlett-Packard Taiwan team in the 1980s.
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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 ...
Exterior photo of the Hewlett-Packard manufacturing plant in Boblingen, Germany, in 1959.
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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.
A group photo from the opening of the China Hewlett-Packard Representative Office in 1981.
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Cementing a Foothold in China
Hewlett-Packard was a pioneer for Western companies in the People’s Republic of China. In 1979, following a trip from Dave Packard, Hewlett-Packard received a license to sell products in the country a ...
Bill Hewlett shows Charles de Gaulle some products during a tour of HP's headquarters in Palo Alto in 1960.
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Charles De Gaulle’s Campaign: Visiting HP
Bill Hewlett (right) taught Charles de Gaulle (center, in the double breasted jacket) about Hewlett-Packard on a tour of the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto. At the time, de Gaulle was serving rou ...