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Dr. Harold Welsch

DePaul University

• Coleman Foundation Endowed
• Chair in Entrepreneurship
• Professor of Management
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Harold P. Welsch, Ph.D., who holds the Coleman Foundation Endowed Chair in
Entrepreneurship at DePaul University, has been active in entrepreneurship development
for over 30 years in his role as educator,consultant, researcher, entrepreneur, author,
and editor. 

Dr. Welsch is well known for his expertise in entrepreneurship education, gestation
patterns, privatization, technology commercialization, entrepreneurship career paths,
formal and informal strategic planning, information seeking and decision behavior, ethnic
entrepreneurship, economic development, and small business problems. Dr. Welsch’s work
has appeared in many publications including the Journal of Business Venturing,
Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, Journal of High Technology Management Research,
International Small Business Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, Frontiers of
Entrepreneurship Research, Revue International PME, Research in Entrepreneurship, Group
and Organization Studies, Internationales Gewerbe Archiv, and Human Relations. His recent
books include Strategic Entrepreneurial Growth (2nd ed.) by Thomson/South Western,
Entrepreneurship The Way Ahead by Routledge and The Strategy of Entrepreneurship (in
Chinese) by Thomson. 

In his position as founder/director of the internationally acclaimed Entrepreneurship
Program and the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center at DePaul University, Dr. Welsch has
served as Chairman of the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division, president of
the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), and president of the U.S.
Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). He has served on the
editorial board of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, the International
Journal of Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, Small
Business Forum, the Journal of Small Business Management, Family Business Review. Dr.
Welsch serves on various boards of directors, and consults for both large and small
firms. He is a principal of Devon Enterprises, a real estate investment and management
firm. 

His work carries him throughout the world in his efforts to promote entrepreneurship
development and education. He received a doctorate in Humane Letters from
Estonian-American University for his work in introducing entrepreneurship in Estonia. He
was instrumental in establishing Small Business Development Centers in Poland and served
in a pilot program to establish an MBA program in Prague, Czech Republic. Dr. Welsch was
awarded the Harold Washington Community Service Award for his economic development
efforts in Chicago’s neighborhoods, and serves as Director of the Small Business
Institute and on the Executive Committee of the MIT Enterprise Forum. He has served as a
national judge for several prestigious entrepreneurial awards including The Blue Chip
Enterprise Initiative’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce and Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company, and KPMG’s Hi-Tech Entrepreneur of the
Year Award. 

Dr. Welsch has received grants from the Coleman Foundation, the Booz-Allen-Hamilton
Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Commonwealth
Edison, the U.S. Department of Transportation, United States Information Agency (USIA),
and Argonne National Laboratories. 

Dr. Welsch received his Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate
School of Management. 

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