Hewlett-Packard

The G.I. Generation era was from 1929 through 1946. This generation experienced numerous challenges in their everyday lives. The Great Depression and World War II were two devastating events of this generation. Advertising and graphic design has been around since 1704, and while exploring all of the different generations, we will see the changes that occurred in advertising and graphic design. During the G.I. Generation the stock market crashed and individuals and businesses became…

Introduction: Originally, I’d hoped this research project to be an analysis of the Western media response to the Ebola outbreak. As my research carried on, I focused the study on the stark limitations and biases of the popular discourse present in regards to the cultural epidemiology and understanding on the situation. Understanding the media response is critical to understanding how Westerners construct Ebola and it terms their response to the disease. Moreover, a persistent theme of the…

the Steve’s that founded Apple Inc. Wozniak was fascinated with electronics at an early age. While attending the University of California in Berkeley he was introduced to Steve Jobs through a mutual friend. They became friends while working at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where Wozniak was working on a mainframe computer. Steve Jobs worked for Atari in 1973 creating a circuit board for the arcade game Breakout. Jobs had little knowledge of designing circuit boards so he made a deal with Wozniak to…

and development. In the past creations such as the blue ray player and the HD player were at odds for consumer appeal. Overtime the blue ray player seems to have taken a large share of the market. (Hitt 273). Many technological innovations have focused on entertainment as people today are more computer savvy then ever. Many companies appeal to consumers with the specifications of a laptop instead of a low price. One interesting trend is the emergence of high resolution television displays. The…

My biggest fear as a future leader is not managing budget or meeting project deadlines, rather it’s how to evaluate, improve, and maintain employee morale. During my Management 150 course there were six words that will forever stay imbedded in my mind, “Managers direct people, Leaders motivate people.” A Gallup study has reported, only thirty percent of U.S. employees are engaged at work, and as low as thirteen percent worldwide. Gallup defines “engaged” employees as those who are involved in,…

Carly Fiorina was a star. Her previous jobs at AT&T and Lucent made her into one of the highest profiled people in the industry. She made AT&T and Lucent a household name and HP was look at her to help them success even more. As the CEO of Hewett Packard (HP) between1999 and 2005, there was a lot of issues with her leadership ability and her ego. She was supposed to have a good strategy to make a mid-level company become a great industry leader. At her tenure at HP, she had two big strategic…

company known as “Agilent Technology”, a technology and electronic manufacture and maker of measuring and testing equipment. This company already cut about 8000 staff during 2001 because prior to downsizing. Agilent Technology was spun off from Hewlett-Packard…

Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different is a biography written by a critically acclaimed children’s nonfiction writer and longtime journalist for the Wall Street Journal, Karen Blumenthal. The biography was published by Feiwel and Friends in New York. The main idea of the biography is to “Think Different”. “Think Different” for those who have a passion to change the world for the better like Steve Jobs. I love this book because it has great info and because I knew Steve Jobs as Apple but…

From a humble secretary at a real-estate to a powerful CEO of a Fortune 50 company, Carly Fiorina is an example of what the American Dream really is about. Many say the American Dream is dead, yet here is a woman who is living proof that that statement is not true. The dream is strong and true, and she believes that it is still attainable. She stands with other candidates as a non-politician running for the most influential seat in the United States, the presidency. With the people having a…

that boolean logic was possible was found in George Stibitz 's invention of his "Model K" Adder. He utilized Bell Company 's telephone relays in order to create a basic calulator devise in the year 1937. Two years later, Hewlett-Packard was founded by David Packard and Bill Hewlett in their garage. Their first business expedition within HP was sound-testing equipment. [1] Timeline: 1940s In 1940, George Stibitz makes history again with his completion of the Complex Number Calculator (CNC)…