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February 6, 2013 by Jackie Modeste
In one of my favorite Foreign Affairs articles, Secretary of State (former) Hilary Rodham Clinton sounds very much like the …
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Category: Business, Cultural diplomacy, Education, Governance, International Relations, Jazz, Wynton Marsalis
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Tags: Bach, collective improvisation, Cultural diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, fugue, Global governance, Helene Grimaud, Henry Ford, hillary rodham clinton, jazz at lincoln center, Jelly Roll Morton, jobs, MOOCs, Multinational corporation, Paddy Ashdown, skills, swing, United States Agency for International Development, United States Department of State, victor goines
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January 26, 2013 by Jackie Modeste
“A blues riff is a brief musical phrase that is repeated, sometimes with very subtle variations…” –Albert Murray, Stomping the …
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Category: Albert Murray, Blues, Business, Cultural diplomacy, Education, Jazz, Uncategorized
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Tags: albert murray, Back at the Chicken Shack, blues, business, Cultural diplomacy, culture, Don Tapscott, Duke Ellington, education, Hammond B3, Jazz, Jimmy Smith, McKinsey Quarterly, Queen's Suite, Single Petal of a Rose, Sonny Rollins, St.Thomas, Stomping the Blues, swing, University of Toronto
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January 24, 2013 by Jackie Modeste
Duke Ellington, “It Don’t Mean a Thing” (1943) “A blues riff is a brief musical phrase that is repeated, sometimes …
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Category: Albert Murray, Blues, Business, Cultural diplomacy, Education, International Relations, Jazz
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Tags: albert murray, blues, business, Cultural diplomacy, culture, education, emerging markets, Huffington Post, innovation, Massive Open Online Courses, MOOCs, New York Times, rising costs, Stomping the Blues, tuition
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January 7, 2013 by Jackie Modeste
In a move that exemplifies his ability to identify and form strategic partnerships – not to mention his business acumen …
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Category: Blues, Cultural diplomacy, Education, Governance, International Relations, Jazz, Uncategorized
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Tags: Ahmed Shibab-Eldin, Al Gore, Al Jazeera, Alvin Atkinson, Arab Spring, blues, call-and-response, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Cultural diplomacy, culture, Current TV, Democrats, Diplomacy, Doha, governance, hillary rodham clinton, Huffington Post, Jazz, jazz at lincoln center, Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha, john mccain, middle-east, New York Times, Qatar, Reggie Thomas, Republicans, strategy, swing, Time Warner Cable, United States
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October 10, 2012 by Jackie Modeste
“How Big Data is Different” — by Thomas H. Davenport, Paul Barth and Randy Bean (henceforth known as DBB) was …
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Category: Blues, Business, Education, Jazz, Strategy
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Tags: Analytics, Big data, business, Duke Ellington, innovation, Jazz, leadership, louis armstrong, Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, Six Sigma, strategy, swing, Thomas H. Davenport
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October 1, 2012 by Jackie Modeste
Train Whistle Diplomacy: Blues-Based Jazz and National Identity (47 – 67) Blues and swing, 48 – 51 Blues-Based jazz, 51 – …
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Category: Albert Murray, Blues, Business, Cultural diplomacy, Education, Governance, International Relations, Jazz, Strategy
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Tags: albert murray, blues, business, Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University, Cultural diplomacy, democracy and human rights, Diplomacy, Duke Ellington, education, governance, Harvard Business Review, innovation, Jazz, jazz at lincoln center, jazz studies, leadership, Mexico, Music, National Identity, politics, Robert G. O'Meally, Spain, Spectrum Journal of Global Studies, strategy, swing, Turkey
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July 10, 2012 by Jackie Modeste
Swing is a matter of coordination – finding and sustaining equilibrium – a rhythmic flow. The recent G-20 meeting in Mexico …
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Category: Blues, Business, Education, Governance, International Relations, Jazz, Strategy, Wynton Marsalis
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Tags: Africa, Alan Gilbert, art, Asian, blues, BRIC, BRIC nations, C-Suites, citizens, classical music, democracy, diversity, Egypt, employee engagement, equillibrium, famine, Frederick P. Rose Hall, frontline, G-20, gender, genocide, Homeland Security, Hong Kong, IMF, India, International Monetary Fund, Islamists, Jamie Dimon, Jazz, jazz at lincoln center, Latin America, market segment, Mexico, Michele Dunne, middle-east, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, NYT, Ode to Joy, Ode to Joy Flash Mob, Park Avenue Armory, Peter T. King, Philharmonic, Philharmonic 360, Rose Theatre, saxophone, Scott Shane, South Korea, strategy, Superpower, swing, Taiwan, trombone, United States, virtuosity, Washington, Washington Post, Western dominance
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June 16, 2012 by Jackie Modeste
“Facebook really helped people to communicate, but not to collaborate.” – liberal Egyptian friend of Thomas L. Friedman I’ve been …
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Category: Blues, Business, Cultural diplomacy, Education, Governance, International Relations, Jazz, Strategy, Uncategorized, Wynton Marsalis
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Tags: Arab Spring, Chris Hayes, collaboration disruptive, competitive edge, crowds, democracy, differentiation, Egypt, Egyptian Army, Electoral College, iPod, Jazz, meritocracy, Muslim Brotherhood, oligarchy, parade, politics, representative democracy, Romare Bearden, Second Line, social media, swing, the blues, Thomas L. Friedman, USA, value, voting
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May 21, 2012 by Jackie Modeste
It seems to me that Facebook aspires towards the same openness and global reach as jazz. Moreover, it seems these trajectories converge …
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Category: Blues, Business, Cultural diplomacy, Education, International Relations, Jazz, Strategy
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Tags: Audience for jazz, Brian Solis, Center for Jazz Studies, citizen information, Cultural diplomacy, democracy and human rights, ella fitzgerald, emerging markets, facebook, global actors, governance, Jazz, louis armstrong, mark zuckerberg, pando daily, penny von eschen, peter sandberg, politics, Robert G. O'Meally, uta poiger
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May 16, 2012 by Jackie Modeste
I was all geared up to write an article about corporate social responsibility today. What, with the $2B loss at …
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Category: Albert Murray, Blues, Business, Education, International Relations, Jazz, Strategy, Uncategorized
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Tags: albert murray, Ben Brantley, Blair Underwood, corporate social responsibility, cultural competence, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Duke Ellington, French Quarter, Jamie Dimon, Jazz, jazz studies, JPMorgan Chase, New Orleans, New York Times, Nicole Ari Parker, politics, shakespeare in the park, Streetcar Named Desire, Terence Blanchard, United States, Wood Harris
