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Posted onJanuary 23, 2012 - 2:41 am by Admin | 0 Comments

An exhibit at the Los Altos History Museum honors the contributions of David and Lucile Packard to their community and their dedication to public service. The family's philanthropy reaches far beyond their hometown Los Altos (California). The David and Lucile Packard Foundation enables the creative pursuit of science, expands reproductive health options among the world's poor and seeks to protect the environment.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Started in a Garage in Palo Alto

Lucile Salter and David Packard met at Stanford University in the 1930s. The success story of Bill Hewlett and David Packard, who started a corporate giant on a $500 budget in a garage in Palo Alto is well known. Their innovative business and management approach, “the HP way”, simply put as “people do better work, if they have a little fun doing it”, pioneered flexible work hours, medical coverage and open offices. “The HP” way respected personal autonomy and stressed corporate decentralization, which led to many leading-edge products. A famous example is Bill Hewlett’s wish for a pocket-sized calculator. The wisdom of the day was that no one would pay 10 times the going price of a slide ruler. Hewlett challenged the marketing department and said: he would. The shirt pocket-sized HP-9100 was a huge success.


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