Harold P. Welsch (Ph.D., Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management) holds the Coleman Foundation Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship at DePaul University. He has been active in entrepreneurship development for over 20 years in his role as educator, consultant, researcher, entrepreneur, author and editor. Dr. Welsch is well known for his research in the area of privatization of centrally planned economies, entrepreneurship career paths, formal and informal strategic planning, information seeking and decision behavior, ethnic entrepreneurship, economic development and is the