HP profile

Around the world, more than 1 billion people rely on HP technology every day:

• In Australia, a bank uses the HP Carbon Footprint Calculator to evaluate the greenhouse gas emissions from powering its printers and PCs.
• In Singapore, a sales team gathers in an HP Halo solutions room rather than boarding an airplane to meet with colleagues in Germany.
• In Canada, a nonprofit organization taps into HP cloud computing technology to develop a solution that reduces the time for manufacturers to trace and remove recalled food products from the supply chain.
• In the United States, a nurse in a Veterans Affairs hospital scans bar codes created by the HP Patient ID system to ensure patients receive the correct medication.
• And in India, Lithuania and Nicaragua, teachers and students use HP Tablet PCs to connect and collaborate, opening up new avenues for learning.

In these and countless other ways, HP products, services and solutions are profoundly changing how the world lives and works.

Yet the advance of technology also raises complex global challenges. For example, we must dramatically cut energy use while meeting rising demand for computing resources; protect personal privacy while accelerating information-sharing in the digital age; and reduce the volume of electronic waste going to landfills as customers in emerging markets greatly increase the number of PCs, printers and servers purchased and disposed of each year.

At HP, we believe that technology is key to unleashing the creative vision and ingenuity needed to solve these challenges—and to create opportunities for people to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

Our unrivaled combination of size, scale and global reach give us a unique advantage. Over the past several years, we have executed a far-reaching strategy to put HP in this position of leadership. Through acquisitions, industry partnerships, and investments in research and development, we have amassed the most comprehensive portfolio of IT hardware, software and services in the industry, backed by approximately 304,000 employees in approximately 170 countries.

We are guided by shared values and seven companywide objectives, which include a longstanding commitment to global citizenship. Larger than any organization or program, global citizenship at HP encompasses all the ways we go about aligning our business goals with our impacts on society and the environment, as this report details.

The scope of HP’s business:

• Personal systems HP is the world’s leading vendor of personal computers, shipping over 50 million devices annually. And that’s just one segment of our personal systems offering. We have the industry’s broadest portfolio of notebooks, desktops, workstations, thin clients, displays, handheld devices and personal storage solutions.
• Imaging and printing The worldwide leader in inkjet and laser printing for over 20 years, HP is advancing the digital transformation of printing while offering customers new ways to be creative, save money, improve productivity, and stand out.
• Enterprise Business HP helps large organizations establish strategic advantages by creating ecosystems that use technology to respond efficiently to dynamic conditions in real-time. Our solutions use HP servers, storage, software, networking and services to create or strengthen business elasticity, insight and sustainability.
• Services HP is the second-largest IT services company in the world, giving us the scale and scope to manage customers' most critical business technology needs. We offer one of the industry's broadest portfolios of technology services, including applications services, infrastructure services and business process outsourcing.
• HP Financial Services We help customers reduce the cost of running their businesses— from planning and acquiring technology through to retiring and replacing it.
• HP Labs With hundreds of dedicated researchers in six worldwide locations, HP Labs develops solutions to the most complex challenges facing our customers in the next decade, including those in the areas of analytics, cloud, immersive interaction, content transformation, digital commercial print, information management, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability.