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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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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 8, 2012 by Jackie Modeste
Essentially Ellington is an annual international high school jazz band competition sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Members of the …
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Category: Blues, Business, Governance, International Relations, Jazz, Strategy, Uncategorized, Wynton Marsalis
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Tags: AR Rahman, blues, Code Mizell, culture, Duke Ellington, emerging markets, governance, Harvard Business Review, Hip Hop, innovation, Jazz, LL Cool J, Management, MIT Sloan Review, New York Times, Oum Kalthoum, politics, rap, Second Line, Small business, Steve Jobs, Strategic management, Yacub Addy
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April 20, 2012 by Jackie Modeste
“Inbreeding presents real problems… [and it] isn’t just a problem for captive elephants” – it’s a problem for businesses and …
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Category: Albert Murray, Blues, Business, Jazz, Wynton Marsalis
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Tags: albert murray, blues, christopher bingham, collective improvisation, elephants, emerging markets, Harvard Business Review, improvisation, JALC, Jazz, JLCO, MIT Sloan Review, science, Scott Anthony, Stomping the Blues, The Economist
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March 26, 2012 by Jackie Modeste
Recently, I’ve written about seemingly disparate but related conversations. As if these conversations are individual musical notes, they fill my …
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Category: Governance, International Relations, Jazz
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Tags: Cultural diplomacy, democracy and human rights, emerging markets, governance, Harvard Business Review, innovation, jazz studies, leadership, middle-east, MIT Sloan Review, New York Times, politics, The World Bank
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March 22, 2012 by Jackie Modeste
I participate in a lot of Blogs on Business, Education and International Relations. What’s always surprising to me is that …
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Category: Blues, Cultural diplomacy, Education, Governance, International Relations, Jazz
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Tags: African griots, blues, business, Cultural diplomacy, democracy and human rights, education, emerging markets, Harvard Business Review, Hip Hop, international education, leadership, NAFSA, national security strategy, rap, rhyme, rhythm
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March 5, 2012 by Jackie Modeste
Collaboration is all the rage. As we figure out how to exist in our increasingly interconnected world, thought leaders have …
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Category: Cultural diplomacy, International Relations, Jazz, Uncategorized
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Tags: Cultural diplomacy, democracy and human rights, education, emerging markets, freedom, Harvard Business Review, Hillary Rodhman Clinton, jazz ensembles, leadership, louis armstrong, MIT Sloan Review, President Barack Obama, President Bill Clinton
