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Carly Fiorina Becomes HP’s CEO
Carly Fiorina succeeded Lew Platt as Hewlett-Packard’s CEO in 1999, making her not just the first woman to lead HP, but the first woman to lead a Fortune 50 company. It was a fitting milestone to set ...
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Employee Resource Groups
In the 1990s HP CEO Lew Platt oversaw a formal chartering process for HP’s working groups for minority and women employees. Chartered groups gained access to email, conference rooms, the HP logo and s ...
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HP Asian Indian Employees Network
The HP Asian Indian Employees Network was inaugurated in June 1996 with an elaborate ceremony at HP’s Palo Alto headquarters. The festivities included a traditional Indian dance performed by software ...
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HP CEO Lew Platt Pushes for Inclusion
As CEO, Lew Platt was known for his deep commitment to making HP a more inclusive company for women and minorities. Part of that commitment stemmed from personal experience. Platt explained that after ...
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HP’s Moscow Office Matryoshka Doll
Hewlett-Packard opened its Moscow office in 1973, and unlike most Western technology companies, it maintained operations there from that point forward. This matryoshka (Russian nesting doll) set repre ...
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Lew’s Legacy
Lew Platt’s time as CEO of HP (1992–1999) was successful for many reasons, but his most important legacy was his commitment to diversity. Under his leadership, HP launched successful multi-year progra ...
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Starting Hewlett-Packard Korea
Hewlett-Packard Korea (originally “Samsung Hewlett-Packard”) was founded in 1984 as a joint venture with Samsung. The company became so successful that in 1998 Hewlett-Packard CEO Lew Platt became the ...
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Strength in Diversity
By 1997 HP’s record on diversity was so strong that the company took out a full-page advertisement in Fortune chronicling its programs and their accomplishments. CEO Lew Platt declared, “Our diversity ...
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Susan Packard Orr On HP Board
Susan Packard Orr (front row, second from right) charted her own course in the tech industry, founding Telosa Software in 1986. On September 17, 1993, she followed in her father Dave Packard’s footste ...