Seagate Technology and Corning Inc. boost the Joseph M. Juran Center’s educational mission by becoming founding sponsors
Seagate Technology and Corning recently became founding sponsors of the Joseph M. Juran Center at the Carlson School of Management. The sponsorships are for $50,000 per year for three years. This generosity is critical to advancing the center’s educational mission of scholar development.
“Both Corning and Seagate employ very advanced technologies, execute superb quality deployment and have had remarkable financial performance over the last several years,” said Joseph M. Juran Center Professional Director Jim Buckman. “They are also very advanced companies in terms of quality leadership. They are role models—particularly for the integration of quality and technological innovation.”
Buckman said the center earns some of its revenue through fee-based programs, such as the Summit and the Leadership Black Belt, but that it relies on founding sponsorships to advance its educational mission of developing Juran Fellows and Juran Doctoral awardees. Seagate and Corning join Carlson Companies, Ford Motor Company, Honeywell, Hutchinson Technology, and Target Corporation as founding sponsors.
“The Juran Fellows and Juran Doctoral Awards would be modest local programs without this type of sponsorship funding, rather than the nationally-esteemed programs they have become,” Buckman said.
Corning Incorporated is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications, and life sciences. Corning recorded $5.17 billion in sales in 2006, a 13 percent increase over 2005.
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disk drives. Seagate produces a broad range of hard drive products that make them the leader in the enterprise, desktop and consumer electronics markets. Seagate recorded $9.2 billion in revenue in 2006, and expects $11.3 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2007.
Corning’s Vice President Don McCabe and Seagate’s CEO Bill Watkins serve on the Joseph M. Juran Center’s Executive Advisory Board. Corning’s Board Chair Jamie Houghton recently won the Juran Medal for Quality Leadership from the American Society for Quality.
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