Rate My Professor Harold Welsch

Welsch’s research specializations encompass 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. His key publications include books such as Strategic Entrepreneurial Growth (2nd ed., Thomson/South-Western), Entrepreneurship: The Way Ahead (Routledge), and The Strategy of Entrepreneurship (in Chinese, Thomson), alongside articles in Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, International Small Business Journal, and others. He received major awards including the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Max S. Wortman Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008, Doctor Honoris Causa from the Estonian-American Business Academy, Doctorate in Humane Letters from Estonian-American University for introducing entrepreneurship in Estonia, Harold Washington Community Service Award in 1988, and Best Paper Award at the 27th World Congress on Small Business in 1982. Welsch chaired the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division, served as president of the International Council for Small Business and USASBE, acted as national judge for awards like the Blue Chip Enterprise Initiative’s Entrepreneur of the Year and KPMG’s Hi-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year, and contributed to editorial boards of journals including Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Journal of Small Business Management, and Family Business Review. He secured grants from the Coleman Foundation, NASA, Booz-Allen-Hamilton Foundation, U.S. Department of Transportation, and others, and was instrumental in establishing small business development centers in Poland and an MBA program pilot in Prague, Czech Republic.