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Gellert Family Business Award

Do you know an exceptional family business who deserves public recognition? Let us know!

We consider candidates who meet our 9-point selection criteria:
  • Name recognition via electronic or print media OR strong word of mouth
  • Track record of contributing to their neighborhood’s identity or history
  • Business may be vulnerable to commercial rent increases
  • Under 500 employees
  • 15+ years in business
  • Family has a next generation who can be engaged in a succession plan
  • Family is actively engaged in managing the business
  • Strong ethnic or specialty customer base
  • History of contributing to neighborhood community-based activities in alignment with USF’s Jesuit mission
Send us your Nomination:

Please submit your nomination by Friday, January 8, 2021

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Awarded to a San Francisco family-owned business that has been in business 15+ years, and has passed from one generation to the next, where the second-generation family owner is the business's majority owner and operator.

Monika Hudson
Associate Professor
Director, Gellert Family Business Center
(415) 422-4395
mhudson@usfca.edu

University of San Francisco,
School of Management
2130 Fulton Street, Malloy Hall Room 235
San Francisco, CA 94117

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