Who are these guys?Any ideas?
(Here's a hint...they know a fair bit about computers ...hehe!)
This is a photograph of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard taken at the garage where they started their electronics business way back in the middle of the last century.
They flipped a coin to see if their modest little company should be called Packard-Hewlett or the now globally famous brand of Hewlett-Packard!
The rest, as they say,
is history!
Click here to watch a short video about the Hewlett-Packard story. As you watch, answer these questions:
1 Which university did Bill and Dave attend?
2 When did they start their company?
3 What was the name of their first product?
4 Who did they sell it to?
5 Which film was the product used in?
6 What kind of values was the company built on?
7 What are Bill and Dave handing out in the photograph?
8 What three elements came together to form this "marriage"?
9 What is the typical annual revenue of the company?
10 Which two areas of business does the company focus on today?
Now, click here to read about this and other successful partnerships. Click on the photographs at the bottom of the page and read about the 10 other famous partnerships. Do some further research on one of these partnerships and prepare a one minute presentation to give to the class.You may choose another successful partnership if you wish but check with your teacher first!
1 Which university did Bill and Dave attend?
2 When did they start their company?
3 What was the name of their first product?
4 Who did they sell it to?
5 Which film was the product used in?
6 What kind of values was the company built on?
7 What are Bill and Dave handing out in the photograph?
8 What three elements came together to form this "marriage"?
9 What is the typical annual revenue of the company?
10 Which two areas of business does the company focus on today?
Now, click here to read about this and other successful partnerships. Click on the photographs at the bottom of the page and read about the 10 other famous partnerships. Do some further research on one of these partnerships and prepare a one minute presentation to give to the class.You may choose another successful partnership if you wish but check with your teacher first!
Have fun with your research and good luck with your presentations!
Andy
Short answers 4 short quesions..
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Then I read for a gist the slideshow of famous partnerships and the one i most like was Apple`s founders one. It was very inspiring..
This is a very clear example of a huge company, which started being a very little one, and with lots of effort and trust on the future grew and grew to what it is now.
ReplyDeleteEveryone must learn about this partnerships and believe that most things are possible with mere effort and hard work.
I read about the different partnerships and i think all of them are interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe two i like the most are the ICQ story and the GOOGLE story. I remark them beacause we use this "inventions" everyday in our daily lives and i can't imagine mine without them.
I think that for the globalize world we have now, they form the most importante part of it.
I see no point in writing the answers for the questions as Juan Manuel has already done it but I must say that the video was easy to understand and that there was no difficulty in finding the answers.
ReplyDeleteI also read the site about famous business partnerships, in particular, about the Wright brothers. I knew they built the first airplane but had no idea that they had a company until I read their story.
In my opinion, working in a partnership is pretty difficult because the people involved have to agree in all, something that not everyone can achive.
i found very interesting this partnership story
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ReplyDeleteAll of the optional partnerships were extremely interesting, and it was hard to pick just one, because they're all a big influence in contemporary culture, and some are deeply linked to us, teenagers.
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