For example, GlobalGiving is sourcing business students interested in development assignments through GBSN. We have invited member school students to nominate GBSN Student Ambassadors, and are working with Net Impact and other student organizations that encourage students who want to “do good”.

This brings me to exciting news. GBSN is launching the MBA Challenge, a video competition for MBA students and recent grads from around the world. We're asking them to show us how they're making the world a better place to live through their student projects, start-up enterprises, and new careers, and how their business education helped them succeed. We will bring the winner to Mexico City this June to present their video at our conference.  For details on the MBA Challenge, visit: http://www.gbsnonline.org/mbachallenge.

Many of you participated in last June’s Annual Conference in Washington, DC and so experienced first-hand the excitement of networking about business education for emerging markets. Altogether, fifty business schools from North and South participated. This year’s conference will be co-hosted by IPADE in Mexico City (June 20-22). Its theme—Generating Leadership: Developing Human Capacity in Emerging Markets—is especially timely. In recent years about 80 percent of world market growth took place in emerging markets. This global shift has huge implications for companies and hence for business schools. GBSN is at the intersection of management education and development, and provides a unique framework in which participants from old and new economies generate innovative ideas, share best practice and engage in collaborative activities.

I very much hope to see you in Mexico.