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Why not ask HP themselves?
Also try a simple search on "Hewlett Packard" on amazon to find this:
The Hp Way : How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company -- David Packard, et al; Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887308171/o/qid=929413682/sr=2-1/002-7432668-6735846
In a dry fashion, Packard tells the true story of the mighty Hewlett-Packard Company: Two college buddies begin a partnership by producing an audio oscillator in a Palo Alto garage in 1938 and wind up 60 years later with a $25-billion-dollar electronics company on their hands. He wraps the book up tidily with a timeline of the company's development milestones. Packard chalks up success to many things, including government contracts during wartime, but mostly to the company's management outlook ("The HP Way"), which champions openness, honesty, and flexibility throughout the organization. Entrepreneurs and technologists alike will be interested in this journey of an American giant. Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified.
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I am assuming that you have a copy of the book:
The HP Way, How Bill Hewlett and I built our company By David Packard.
It's available at amazon for about 10 bucks....
