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GSERM 2023 Reflection

The below reflection was written by a GSERM scholarship recipient. To learn more about GSERM’s programming, visit theĀ GSERM page here. My name is Judah Ng’ang’a. I am a Ph.D. student and a course instructor at Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya.  During the GSERM session, I had the privilege of studying advanced Machine Learning in R, which… Read more >

GSERM 2023 Reflection

The below reflection was written by a GSERM scholarship recipient. To learn more about GSERM’s programming, visit theĀ GSERM page here. I was elated when my GBSN scholarship application for tuition fees to attend GSERM 2023 was successful. I had been struggling with multilevel SEM and moderated mediation analysis and I knew that my chance to… Read more >

GSERM 2023 Reflection

The below reflection was written by a GSERM scholarship recipient. To learn more about GSERM’s programming, visit the GSERM page here.

GSERM 2023 Scholarship Recipients

The Global School of Empirical Research Methods (GSERM), in collaboration with GBSN, offered scholarships to nine scholars from GBSN institutions in developing countries. Join us in congratulating them! About GSERM  GSERM is a high-caliber integrated program teaching methodology for PhD students and postdocs from leading universities all over the world. The GSERM offers an attractive… Read more >

Technological Change, Economic Growth, and Business Education

In the late 1950’s, MIT professor Robert Solow published a series of influential articles describing a new framework for understanding economic growth. He showed that increasing labor and capital investment explained very little of the growth in the US between 1909 and 1949. Nearly all the growth was, instead, attributed to a broad set of… Read more >

Teach a Village to Fish

What if we were to take the popular adage ā€œGive a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetimeā€ and modify it slightly. Let’s make it: Give a village fish, and you feed its people for a day. Teach its people… Read more >

What Was It Like to Lead in the First Year of the Covid-19 Pandemic?

About this time three years ago, the two of us were interviewing deans and business leaders, trying to make sense of the future. Covid-19 was breaking our normal, magnifying long-standing injustices, and pulling the future forward. We wanted to see the world beyond what was happening at the time. What we discovered, however, was that… Read more >