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Ethnic Issues in Education The 15th Annual National Conference on Race &Ethnicity in AmericanHigher Ed- ucation (NCORE) will be heldMay 29 through June 2 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sponsored by The South- west Center forHuman Relations Studies at the University of Okla- homa, the conference features a series of workshops on multicultural issues such as racial profiling, conflict reso- lution, campus intolerance, and com- munity development. Participants also can register to at- tend all-day "institutes" to be held before the conference. These insti- tutes cover a variety of topics from student leadership to multicultural Global Entrepreneurship Shifts Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico were the most entre- preneurially active countries in 2001, while the United States, long a powerhouse in this area, slipped sharply in the level of business start-ups. Furthermore, most of the countries that make up the European Union, along with the United Kingdom, were among the least entrepreneurial countries, according to a global study of entrepreneurship. About 150 million people, or 10 percent of the adult population in 29 coun- tries analyzed in the study, are engaged in some form of entrepreneurial activity, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2001 (GEM). The study of en- trepreneurship and economic growth was conducted by Babson College, London Business School, the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, and IBM. The level of entrepreneurial activity, as measured by those adult individuals aged 18 to 64 involved in new business formation, varied sharply from country to country. The lowest level was five percent of adults, in both Belgium and Japan, compared to 18 percent of adults in Mexico. In fact, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand led a group of five countries with generally higher rates of en- t repreneurial activity, followed closely by Korea and Brazil. Ireland and the United States followed this group. And while Brazil and the United States were among the top ten countries in overall entrepreneur- ial activity, they, along with Norway, experienced a significant decline in new business formation during 2000 and 2001. New business formation in the United States dropped 5 percent, from 16.7 percent of adults in 2000 to only 11.7 percent of adults in 2001. In Brazil, the drop was even more dramatic, with entrepreneurial activity among adults declining from 21.4 percent in 2000 to 14.2 percent of adults in 2001. The study further disclosed that those countries with a more developed social safety net were at or near the bottom for new business formation. The study also noted that men are twice as active in entrepreneurship as women, and that those in the 25-to-44-year-old age group are most active in starting up new businesses. An executive report of the GEM findings can be seen at www.entreworld.org /GEM2001. BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2002 11 chance to exchange ideas on race- related topics. For more information on the conference, visit theWeb site at ncore.occe.ou.edu. Top Schools to Train International Executives Business schools from around the world have joined together to train senior managers in organizations like the United Nations, UNESCO, the World Bank, and The International Monetary Forum. The program is a joint venture betweenWharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Cran- field University in England,HEC in Paris, and ESADE in Barcelona, course transformation. During the conference, participants can attend four dialogue sessions that give them a ties concerned recently took part in the opening session at UNESCO to explain how the program will work. Peter Capelli, representingWharton, and Sauquet, acting on behalf of ESADE, participated in the inaugu- ral session. are increasingly important, and there is growing interest in strategically managing intellectual capital as effec- tively as possible," says professor Al- fons Sauquet of ESADE. The four schools "embody four ways of look- ing at the world and have different circles of contacts. This breadth of vision provides added value and will help ensure the program runs smoothly." Representatives from the universi- Spain. The goal is to train senior ex- ecutives to manage staff, focusing on the knowledge that human resources are an organization's main asset. "Knowledge-based organizations