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	Former Executive Bios: William R. Hewlett
		Hewlett was born May 20, 1913, in Ann Arbor, Mich. He attended Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., and received a bachelor of arts degree in 1934.
		Hewlett was involved actively in management of the company until 1987, with the exception of the years he served as an Army officer during World War II.
		Hewlett was an honorary trustee of the California Academy of Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
	www.hp.com /hpinfo/execteam/bios/hewlett.html (778 words)

	William Hewlett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William Hewlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 20 May 1913.
		Hewlett was discharged in 1945 and returned to Hewlett-Packard to lead its research and development efforts, while Packard retained responsibility for the company’s business.
		Hewlett was the technological guru who believed that employees with innovative engineering and scientific ideas should be front and centre in the operation of the company as it adapted to meet changing market demands.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/hewlett.htm (1200 words)

	William Hewlett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Reddington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).
		Hewlett received his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1934, a Master's degree from MIT in 1936, and an Engineer degree from Stanford in 1939.
		Flora Hewlett died in 1977, and in 1978 Hewlett married Rosemary Bradford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Hewlett (270 words)

	Hewlett, William
		Hewlett succeeded the triumvirate and was sole principal 1918-39.
		An anthem by Hewlett is reprinted in CMH vol 9, and his setting of 'In Flanders Fields' (Toronto 1934) has been widely used in schools and at Remembrance Day ceremonies.
		Hewlett was a practising musician of broad capabilities, generous with his time and energy.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001611 (555 words)

	William Hewlett - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William R. Hewlett (May 20, 1913 - January 12, 2001) was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).
		Hewlett received his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1934, and his Master's degree from MIT in 1936.
		He was President of HP from 1964 to 1977, and served as CEO from 1968 to 1978, when he was succeeded by John A. Young.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Bill_Hewlett (180 words)

	obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for William Hewlett
		Hewlett, the acknowledged inventor of the pair, won a coin toss to become the first-named partner in Hewlett-Packard, which was officially launched by the 25-year-old engineers on January 1st, 1939 with less than $550 in investment capital.
		Hewlett, the amiable "hands on" man in the Hewlett-Packard team often admitted their early years were spent developing any practical gizmo they could sell, items as unglamorous as automated urinal flushers and electronic lane eyes for bowling alleys to the first practical pocket calculators in the early 1970s.
		Hewlett was appointed a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and served as an Emeritus Trustee of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. and as an Emeritus Director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, which he had directed for more than a decade.
	obits.com /hewlettwilliam.html (1139 words)

	William Hewlett - Wikipedia
		William Hewlett (20 mei 1913 – 12 januari 2001) richtte samen met David Packard de firma Hewlett-Packard op.
		Hewlett haalde zijn Bachelorsgraad aan de universiteit van Stanford in 1934 en zijn Mastergraad van MIT in 1936.
		Van 1964 tot 1977 was hij president van HP, en van 1968 tot 1978 was hij CEO.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Hewlett (112 words)

	William R. Hewlett
		William Redington Hewlett was born May 20, 1913, in Ann Arbor, Mich. He moved to California at age 3, when his father, a physician, joined the faculty at Stanford Medical School.
		Hewlett believed that one of his greatest accomplishments was the people-oriented approach to management that he developed with Packard.
		Hewlett resigned as president in 1977 and retired as chief executive officer in 1978.
	www.smallbusinessnotes.com /history/hewlett.html (1175 words)

	Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - William Redington Hewlett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William “Bill” Redington Hewlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on May 20, 1913.
		Hewlett claimed his was a “busy and happy” childhood, with time spent with family and developing a love for the outdoors.
		Hewlett said he might have considered a career in medicine had his father not died.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&searchtype=1&DicID=19607&RefType=Encyclopedia (726 words)

	William R. Hewlett
		Hewlett met David Packard during their undergraduate days at Stanford.
		In 1998, Hewlett was named a director emeritus of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, after having served as a director of the Institute for 12 years.
		Hewlett has a wide range of outside interests and hobbies, most of them based on his love for the outdoors.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/hewlett_william.htm (757 words)

	Stanford Magazine: March/April 2001: Feature: Father Figure
		William R. Hewlett is best known for helping birth Silicon Valley, but the apple of his eye for most of his life was the fledgling university he nurtured and watched mature.
		Walter Hewlett stresses that his father's devotion to Stanford was based not merely on sentiment but on a profound belief in the educational enterprise.
		Hewlett once told a reporter that he was proudest of the management style--"the HP way" that he and Packard popularized--that gave employees broad autonomy to make decisions and solve problems.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2001/marapr/features/hewlett.html (2737 words)

	Hewlett donates $5M for presidential fund - MIT News Office
		William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (HP), has donated $5 million to MIT to endow a discretionary fund supporting leadership initiatives of the Institute president.
		Hewlett's 1986 MIT Commencement speech, said his son Walter, a co-trustee of the William R. Hewlett Trust, which is underwriting the endowment.
		Hewlett was actively involved in the company from 1939 until 1987, except during World War II when he was an Army officer.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1999/hewlett-0505.html (614 words)

	William Redington Hewlett, May 20, 1913-January 12, 2001 \| By Robert J. Scully and Marlan O. Scully \| Biographical ...
		William and his lifelong friend and partner, David Packard, owned and ran a unique company dedicated to the premise that profits were based on the well-being of its most important assets: its employees.
		Hewlett was unaccustomed to working less than 12 hours a day, but he was forced to as the bureaucrats in Washington insisted on locking the safe at six o'clock each night.
		William contributed to the conglomerate he had laid the foundation for with an open heart of compassion, sympathy, and understanding-with the hope that the next Silicon Valley would be a more perfect organization, not just a group of for-profit companies, but a society.
	www.nap.edu /html/biomems/whewlett.html (3529 words)

	The indelible legacy of William Hewlett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William Hewlett's death this month marked the end of more than one era in Silicon Valley.
		Hewlett and his longtime partner, David Packard, who died in 1996, were among the valley's genuine founding fathers.
		Hewlett and Packard were competitive, all right, but they didn't value paranoia above other qualities, as some modern executives seem to do.
	www.itworld.com /Tech/2987/IW_1-29-01_legacy/search.html (500 words)

	TheStreet.com: H-P Co-Founder William Hewlett Dies at Age 87
		TheStreet.com: H-P Co-Founder William Hewlett Dies at Age 87
		Hewlett, the former president of the PC and hardware maker, and David Packard, who died in 1996, started the company in 1939 with $538 and worked out of a small garage in Palo Alto, Calif., at the company's inception.
		Hewlett, who retired from active management in 1978, saw the company he helped build grow into two multinational enterprises: Hewlett-Packard, with revenue of $48.8 billion in fiscal 2000 and more than 88,500 employees, and Agilent Technologies, with revenue of more than $10.8 billion and 47,000 workers.
	www.thestreet.com /tech/hardware/1254793.html (166 words)

	Hewlett Family Members and William R. Hewlett Revocable Trust To Vote Against Hewlett-Packard/Compaq Merger
		Hewlett also announced that he has been informed by an independent committee of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation that the Foundation has reached a preliminary conclusion to vote its Hewlett-Packard shares against the merger.
		Hewlett stated, "After careful deliberation, consultation with my financial advisor and consideration of developments since the announcement of the merger, I have decided to vote against the transaction.
		Hewlett is the son of the late Hewlett- Packard Company co-founder, William R. Hewlett.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-06-2001/0001609809&EDATE= (477 words)

	Technology pioneer William R. Hewlett dead at 87: 1/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		William R. Hewlett, a founder of the technology giant Hewlett- Packard Co. and a Stanford alumnus, died Friday morning at his home in Palo Alto.
		Indeed, Hewlett served as a trustee of the university between 1963 and 1974.
		Hewlett graduated in 1934 with a bachelor's degree and, in 1936, earned a master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/00/hewlett112.html (533 words)

	William Hewlett, kindest of Silicon Valley's pioneers
		Like Packard, Hewlett became one of the world's most generous philanthropists, donating more than $9 billion of his wealth to charity, including the Flora and William Hewlett Foundation he set up.
		Hewlett, who loved to leave the office and go fishing with Packard, used his foundation to fund river and wilderness preservation program.
		Hewlett was committed to environmental issues, particularly to preserving California's Lake Tahoe and Sierra regions.
	www.ciol.com /content/news/makers/301011601.asp (560 words)

	William Hewlett - Wikipedia
		Die Firma, in welcher Packard sich als Verwaltungsfachmann hervortat und Hewlett viele technische Innovationen beisteuerte, wuchs zum weltgrößten Hersteller von elektronischen Test- und Meßinstrumenten.
		Ebenfalls wurde die Firma zu einem der großen Hersteller von Taschenrechnern, Personalcomputern, Laserdruckern und Tintenstrahldruckern.
		Er war von 1964 bis 1977 Präsident und von 1968 bis 1977 CEO von Hewlett Packard, danach wurde er von John A. Young abgelöst. Er blieb bis 1983 Vorsitzender des 'Executive Committee' und diente danach bis 1987 als stellvertretender Vorsitzender desselben.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Hewlett (151 words)

	Hewlett Foundation announces $400 million gift to Stanford University : 5/01
		When Hewlett went on to say that $300 million of the gift was for the School of Humanities and Sciences and $100 million for the Campaign for Undergraduate Education, the gasps and applause turned into sustained cheers.
		Walter Hewlett explained that, as a member of the advisory council to the School of Humanities and Sciences, "I have noticed increased budgetary pressures on the school.
		William Hewlett graduated from Stanford with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1934.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/report/news/may9/gift-59.html (1501 words)

	ITworld.com - Bill Hewlett Remembered
		Hewlett and Packard engineered their management structure and corporate culture in the same elegant way they designed their products.
		Hewlett's management was as innovative as his engineering, and his innovations endure: Flat organizational charts, bonuses to nonmanagers, and "management by walking around" are widely emulated in well-run companies throughout the world.
		Hewlett's first product was an innovative audio oscillator based on the newly developed principle of negative feedback.
	www.itworld.com /Tech/2987/IW010122hnhewlett (607 words)

	Silicon Valley pioneer William Hewlett dead at 87 - 01/12/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		PALO ALTO, Calif. -- William Hewlett, the affable engineer who co-founded Silicon Valley electronics pioneer Hewlett-Packard Co. in a garage and helped guide it into the computer age, died Friday.
		Hewlett and Packard shared some basic belief about managing a company: disdain of strict hierarchy and formality, admiration for individual creativity and initiative, and trust in employees.
		Hewlett also was involved in a variety of scientific and industry organizations.
	www.detnews.com /2001/obituaries/0101/12/-175181.htm (790 words)

	Silicon Valley pioneer William Hewlett dies - Computerworld
		According to a Hewlett-Packard statement, Hewlett died in his sleep of natural causes.
		Hewlett and David Packard met as undergraduates at Stanford University and in 1939 formed their company from their garage in Palo Alto, Calif.
		Ceruzzi noted that Hewlett and Packard were students of Stanford professor Frederick Terman, "the father of the Silicon Valley," who encouraged his students to embrace technology and get rich in the process.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2001/0,4814,56290,00.html (434 words)

	Hewlett doffs invisible cloak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hewlett, who at first almost resigned from the H-P board because he loathed the deal, then voted for it, now says the merger will dilute H-P's strengths and increase its exposure to the battered PC business.
		Hewlett, 57, lives in a quiet neighborhood in Palo Alto, Calif., several blocks from the garage where H-P was founded in 1938.
		Hewlett revered his father and inherited his high-tech genes, as well as enough money to indulge his passions.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/techinvestor/2002/02/11/hewlett.htm (1071 words)

	Silicon Valley pioneer William Hewlett dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hewlett, who suffered a stroke in 1993, died in his sleep, HP spokesman Dave Berman said.
		But Hewlett ranked among his greatest accomplishments the HP management style that still serves as a model for other companies.
		Hewlett also was a noted philanthropist, giving tens of millions of dollars to environmental, educational and humanitarian causes individually and through a large family foundation.
	www.rgj.com /cgi-bin/printstory.cgi?publish_date=20010113&story=979461054 (673 words)

	Forbes.com: Forbes Faces: William Hewlett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hewlett died in his sleep surrounded by his family.
		Hewlett and his Stanford University pal David Packard created a $49 billion business out of $538 and many late nights in a Palo Alto garage, which is now a California landmark.
		Hewlett was proudest of HP's pioneering open management style, which pushed innovation at all levels in the company and gave employees a piece of its profits.
	www.forbes.com /2001/01/12/0112faces2.html (293 words)

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