Justin Safier
12/3/2017
Business Communications
The HP Way
One of the main locations of major innovation in the United
States in the last 40 years has been Silicon Valley in
California and the company considered to have started it all was
HP. The book, The HP Way by David Packard, David, one of the cofounders of HP goes over how he and Bill Hewlett started HP and how they grew it into the mega-corporation that it is today and try to explain why it’s so successful today and how it can be replicated in other businesses.
The first two chapters in the book go over David and
Hewlett’s lives before they founded HP. David was born in
Pueblo, Colorado and had his eyes set on Stanford University from the moment he got a tour of it while he was in High …show more content…
Dave and Bill both had classes together over the years at Stanford but it wasn’t until their senior year when they became friends by being invited to a graduate level course taught by Fred Terman. In that class, Terman would show his students around the radio manufacturing companies at the time. If it wasn’t for Dave getting a job at GE during the great depression fresh out of college, they would have started the company then but they started a few years later.
Bill and Dave couldn’t figure out what they wanted to manufacture and sell at first. The first few products they came out with were one off products for business contacts of theirs.
Still, it generated a little money so in 1939, Bill and Dave signed a partnership to form the company. Their first product came from a contact of Fred Terman’s. The business contact payed
Terman money to have his students make a piece of audio equipment for him and Bill made part of it. Dave realized that they could sell Bill’s part of the project as an individual unit and would be way cheaper to manufacture than competing solutions on the market. The device (Model 200A) was so good, Disney
12/3/2017
Business Communications
The HP Way
One of the main locations of major innovation in the United
States in the last 40 years has been Silicon Valley in
California and the company considered to have started it all was
HP. The book, The HP Way by David Packard, David, one of the cofounders of HP goes over how he and Bill Hewlett started HP and how they grew it into the mega-corporation that it is today and try to explain why it’s so successful today and how it can be replicated in other businesses.
The first two chapters in the book go over David and
Hewlett’s lives before they founded HP. David was born in
Pueblo, Colorado and had his eyes set on Stanford University from the moment he got a tour of it while he was in High …show more content…
Dave and Bill both had classes together over the years at Stanford but it wasn’t until their senior year when they became friends by being invited to a graduate level course taught by Fred Terman. In that class, Terman would show his students around the radio manufacturing companies at the time. If it wasn’t for Dave getting a job at GE during the great depression fresh out of college, they would have started the company then but they started a few years later.
Bill and Dave couldn’t figure out what they wanted to manufacture and sell at first. The first few products they came out with were one off products for business contacts of theirs.
Still, it generated a little money so in 1939, Bill and Dave signed a partnership to form the company. Their first product came from a contact of Fred Terman’s. The business contact payed
Terman money to have his students make a piece of audio equipment for him and Bill made part of it. Dave realized that they could sell Bill’s part of the project as an individual unit and would be way cheaper to manufacture than competing solutions on the market. The device (Model 200A) was so good, Disney