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A Degree to Succeed
Discover why former Human Resources Director and Air Force veteran Ken Coleman said he earned his “PhD in leadership” while working at Hewlett-Packard.
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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 ...
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Creating the Black Employee Network
Learn about the origins of HP’s Black Employee Network from one of its founders, former Human Resources Director Ken Coleman.
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Envisioning the Future
Find out how a story about Bill Helwett and a calculator taught former Human Resources Director Ken Coleman a valuable lesson about the high technology market.
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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 ...