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Black Employees Forum
The Black Employees Forum was HP’s oldest resource group, with roots dating back to the 1970s — long before resource groups were formally organized or empowered. By 1995, when John Blue (left) and Art ...
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Black Employees Reach Out
After HP employee groups received formal charters, it was much easier for them to articulate formal platforms and explain their missions to HP employees. This pamphlet from the Bay Area Black Employee ...
Photo of Bess Stephens (right) and Kevin Hinkston (left), both honored at the Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference.
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Black Engineers of the Year
In 1999, HP submitted its first employees for consideration at the annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference. The company had been an active supporter of the conference for years, but this w ...
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Boxed Up: Bleach-Free Packaging
In 1991, Hewlett-Packard began transitioning from using traditional white, bleached boxes to “kraft” containers, which were bleach-free and brown like the natural wood pulp they came from. The kraft b ...
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Bringing New Life to Old Hardware
Denise Furet, program manager, and Gilles Brulet, recycling specialist at Hardware Recycling Europe, took in 120 tons of obsolete HP products on a monthly basis. Many parts were reused for repairs and ...
Carly Fiorina and Lew Platt seated on a table next to an HP laptop.
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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 ...
The HP DeskJet 500C with several examples of printouts.
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Color Coordinated: The HP DeskJet 500C
The HP DeskJet 500C heralded a revolution in color printing. Prior to it, color printing was expensive and generally performed by a separate machine from black and white printing. Hewlett-Packard’s ma ...
HP's Digital-Data-Storage Data-Compressed Digital Audio Tape system with a drive and digital tape showcased in front.
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Compression Rating: HP DDS-DC DAT
Hewlett-Packard’s Digital-Data-Storage Data-Compressed (DDS-DC) Digital Audio Tape (DAT) compressed data that was identical or repetitive, allowing the data to use up less space on a digital tape, thu ...
Hewlett-Packard board member Condoleezza Rice in black clothing at Dave Packard's memorial service in 1996.
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Condoleezza Rice on HP Board
Condoleezza Rice was the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor, the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State and the first woman of color to serve on the Hewlett-Packard board of d ...
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Contributing to Children’s Causes
HP employees of the Vancouver division volunteered at the Children’s Home Society in Washington, working on maintenaince projects inside and outside the facility. The statewide nonprofit provided chil ...