During the past century, Joseph M. Juran has put forth a vision for a world made better through a commitment to quality. His message has urged leaders to improve quality by learning from both our achievements and shortcomings, and by expanding the field through our curiosity.

From Dr. Juran’s vision for a Century of Quality emerged the Joseph M. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality at the University of Minnesota. The Juran Center is a repository for past developments in the field of leadership in quality, as well as a generator of new research, new ideas, and new scholars.

The Carlson School of Management, where the Joseph M. Juran Center is housed, understands the importance of research and teaching in quality, and is committed to being a place where world leaders in quality come to think and contribute. The Center’s unique position in an academic setting has helped develop its reputation as a disciplined, rigorous champion of development in the quality field. The Center serves as a resource to leaders, scholars, and students of quality.

Through its fellowship program for graduate students, its biennial summit for corporate and academic leaders, its educational offerings, and its Body of Knowledge repository of research and discovery, the Joseph M. Juran Center is stewarding the evolution of Dr. Juran’s vision for a Century of Quality.