Depending on the vagaries of the equity markets--and lately Micron and other tech stocks have fallen somewhat--the value of the 21% of Micron that Simplot owns or controls is on par with the stockholdings of Intel's (INTC) Gordon Moore, Oracle's (ORCL)...

Flora, set up a private foundation in 1967. The Hewlett Foundation, with grants to educational and cultural institutions, is one of the largest grant-giving entities in the U.S. , with assets of more than $7 billion. The David and Lucile Packard...

Everybody has an opinion, everybody wants to have a say and everybody thinks their "focus group of one" is more important than the actual target audience. Maybe that's why there's so much bad marketing out there. There's no accountability because David...

"In his last board meeting, he resigned as CEO, and they started making fun of Hewlett-Packard for getting out of the laptop and tablet business," said Isaacson, "and Steve said, 'Wait a minute. Bill Hewlett gave me my first job when I was 13, and he...

One evening in the 1950s, Packard saw a prototype that didn’t meet his standards. He crushed it with his bare hands and left a note saying: “You can do better than this — David Packard.” The next day, engineers rushed over to gawk at the boss’s wreckage.

These men built and financed things—from oil wells and high-tech instruments to autos and suburban tract houses—essential to the prosperity of the working and middle classes they employed and depended on to purchase their products. But the last...