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... He studied electrical engineering at Stanford University, and it was there he made two important friendships. One was with 211
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... 212 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES Bill Hewlett, a fellow engineering student, and the other with Frederick Terman, a young professor who became a mentor to Dave and Bill and, even while they were still undergraduates, encouraged them to think about starting a business together.
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... DAVID PACKARD 213 fire shop," Packard said. Nor did he and Bill wish to take on any long-term debt.
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... 214 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES Upon Packard's death, Hewlett said Dave's greatest legacy was the "HP Way," a set of values and management principles that Dave put down on paper more than forty years ago and which, to this clay, are at the core of the company's culture. In his 1995 book, The HP Way, Dave wrote that one of the objectives of the company was "to maintain an organizational environment that fosters individual motivation, initiative ant!


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