Volleyball was one of the many sports employees participated in during company picnics. This match took place at the Adobe Creek Lodge in Los Alto Hills, California. Picnics in the 1940s regularly inc ...

Hewlett-Packard often garnered lifelong loyalty from its employees, giving them the chance to grow and advance over the course of an entire career spent within the company. Few rose as high as Enrique ...

In 1984, Hewlett-Packard entered into agreements with the American Tennis Professionals (ATP) and Women’s International Tennis Association (WITA) to provide them with HP equipment and customized softw ...

Katey Kennedy, World Cup ‘98 marketing manager (far right), talked with her Santa Clara-based team about posters to recommend for Spain to create on HP inkjet printers. Hewlett-Packard became the offi ...

In 1969, the company sponsored a new softball team named the HP Owls. Within a few years, the Owls expanded their playing circuit to Soledad and San Quentin state prisons, where Hewlett-Packard sports ...

HP employee Margaret Bailes showed off the gold medal she won in the 400-meter relay race two decades earlier at the 1968 Summer Olympics. “It didn’t really hit me that this was the Olympics and we se ...

HP was an active partner of Project HIRED (Helping Industry Recruit Employees with Disabilities), a Bay Area nonprofit dedicated to helping people with disabilities find work. Worldwide EEO manager Ha ...

This letter from Bill Hewlett discussed Hewlett-Packard’s “open door policy” and its importance to the company culture.

Even as Hewlett-Packard grew to be a global operation and a world-renowned leader in R&D, the company remembered its roots. This ashtray from Hewlett-Packard’s first boardroom featured a diagram of th ...

Hewlett-Packard sponsored its first softball team, the HP Aggies, in 1945. Just two years later, the team won its first league division championship with a 22-2 record. Hewlett-Packard was part of a d ...