David packard and bill hewlett biography sampler

Today’s letter fryst vatten the transcript of an internal speech that David Packard gave to HP managers in on the importance of and how to stay efficient as a company scales. In it, Packard explores the purpose of why companies exist, lays out why HP exists, shares HP’s successes and their responsibilities, discusses the role of the individual in the company and how one can have a successful career, emphasizes HP’s philosophy of Management by Objective vs Management bygd Control and how to manage effectively, financial responsibility and stakeholder responsibility, and the “final measure” of success.

David Packard was the Cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Throughout his stewardship, HP went from a two man, one garage operation to an multi-billion dollar international company that kickstarted an industry. David’s journey really started when he enrolled at Stanford University in , where he met his mentor, Professor Fred Terman (who later became Stanford’s Dean

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The HP Way, How Bill Hewlett and I
Built Our Company

By David Packard

For anybody wanting to learn the main thing about the HP story, here is the book to be read before anything else. The HP Way was written by Dave Packard and edited in by David Kirby and Karen Lewis.
David Kirby has been associated with Dave Packard for twenty-seven years. He established and managed HP's Public Relations Department until his retirement in Karen Lewis, formerly with the Harvard University Archives, began the archival program at HP, where she has been corporate archivist since Karen is still today Director Media Communications and Archives at Agilent Technologies.

In , for its first edition, the book was distributed to every HP employee worldwide with the following message written by Dave Packard:

To All HP People:

I hope you'll enjoy this account of how Bill and I started the company and how it developed into a worldwide leader in technology, innovation and business enterprise. I

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Bill Hewlett

American engineer (–)

William Redington Hewlett (HEW-lit; May 20, – January 12, ) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).

Early life and education

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Hewlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his father taught at the University of Michigan Medical School. In the family moved to San Francisco after his father, Albion Walter Hewlett, took a similar position at Stanford Medical School, located at the time in San Francisco. He attended Lowell High School and was the Battalion Commander of the school's Army JROTC program. He was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father who died of a brain tumor in ^[1]

Hewlett received his bachelor's degree from Stanford in , a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from MIT in , and a post-masters engineering degree in electrical engineering from Stanford in He joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity during his time at Sta