Evaluation Process

"The sprit of our task was not to set candidates in competition with each other so much as with a standard, and thus celebrate the richness of the many paths to excellence in UK Family business. The excellence of one is the excellence of all."

Nigel Nicholson
Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London
Business School

Research Team
All nominations are validated by a Research Team composed of representatives from London Business School. The information obtained is only used for the purposes of evaluating nominations and producing research.

A report will be produced by the London Business School at the end of 2005 highlighting some of the best practices and policies that have been identified through the 2005 Family Business Honours Programme.

Independent Evaluation Committee
The Evaluation Committee reviews all nominations. The Committee is independent and includes representatives from the Institute for Family Business, owners of family firms, leading businessmen and women and academics. JPMorgan Private Bank shall facilitate the deliberations of the Evaluation Committee but shall take no active part in the decision making. Membership of the Committee is rotated each year.

Honours Event
The names of the three companies to be specially honoured as exemplars of best practice will be announced at an event in November in London to which all the nominees, nominators and the Evaluation Committee, will be invited.

Confidentiality
Names and identities of the nominees will not be revealed beyond JPMorgan Private Bank, the members of the Research Team and the Evaluation Committee at any stage in the Family Business Honours programme process except with the prior and express written consent from the nominees. Such consent will be actively sought from nominees pursuant to nomination. Members of the Research Team and the Evaluation Committee will be bound to respect full confidentiality.

Please contact us for further information on the evaluation process, or if you would like to receive a nomination pack.

 

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