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...Ford 5 Intel 5 Merck 5 Columbia/HCA 4 Exxon 4 Hewlett-Packard 4 Johnson & Johnson 4 Pepsico 4 Wal-Mart 4 McDonald...
...truism that children can't vote, but Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of When the Bough Breaks: The Costs of Neglecting Our Children, has discovered that their parents don't vote either. In the last national election, only 39% of adults with children at home cast a ballot, as compared with 61% of the elderly. During the 1950s, says Hewlett, who runs a nonprofit organization aimed at getting parents to the polls, 65% of parents voted...
...gets lifetime employment anymore, not even at companies like Hewlett-Packard, a visionary $31.5 billion high-tech firm that makes just about every good-guy list extant. Instead, HP employs a system of redeployment for "excessed" workers. They can hunt for other positions within the company for 90 days, fully paid and free of job responsibilities. Usually the company will make another job offer. But if an employee decides to leave, he or she still receives a generous severance package...
DIED. DAVID PACKARD, 83, electronics and computer pioneer; in Stanford, California. The "Birthplace of Silicon Valley," an official California State landmark, is the garage where Packard and his Stanford University classmate William Hewlett opened a workshop in 1939. Today Hewlett-Packard is the nation's second largest computer maker (behind IBM). Packard eschewed corporate pomposity, preferring "management by walking around" to keep employee morale high and focus on achieving objectives. In the '60s, he met with Stanford students protesting his company's defense contracts, and later mediated talks between them and their school. His personable style and civic activism inspired...
...carry out a business expansion. "All you have to do is talk to people in Silicon Valley," says Ritter, who points out that "almost all of the firms that got started there in the past 10 to 15 years" were founded by people from behemoths such as Xerox or Hewlett-Packard...