Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative’s teaching cases and associated materials are available free of charge to educators through the Harvard Kennedy School Case Program. These cases, educator guides, and practitioner guides were developed to translate the most relevant and up‐to‐date knowledge about leadership, management, governance, and innovation in cities into active tools for teaching and learning. They are designed to help mayors and city leaders address issues that require innovative thinking and approaches and are part of a repository of teaching tools and online learning materials dedicated to improving professional practice.

Teaching tools include teaching cases centered around urban problem-solving, analytic teaching notes, concept frameworks on leadership capabilities, and graphics to illustrate teaching concepts.

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Case Materials

"A Difficult Lady": Shutting Down Pollution in Kampala, Uganda
Case and Educator GuidePractitioner Guide

A Task Force with Teeth?: Driving City Performance in Lawrence, MA
Case and Educator GuidePractitioner Guide

At the Center of the Storm: San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and the Response to Hurricane Maria
Case and Educator GuideEpiloguePractitioner Guide

Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide

Driving Change in São Paolo
Case and Educator Guide; EpiloguePractitioner Guide

Fortaleza: Keeping an Electoral Promise
Case and Educator Guide; EpiloguePractitioner Guide

Galvis City Schools Collective Bargaining Simulation
Simulation and Educator Guide

Growing Pains: How a Dutch Cross-Agency Team Took On Illegal Marijuana Production in Residential Areas
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide

Leading Civic Engagement: Three Cases
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide

Making a Statement: Mayor Libby Schaaf and the Sanctuary City of Oakland, CA
Case and Educator GuideEpiloguePractitioner Guide

No Trust in Miracles: Leading Through a Water Crisis in Cape Town
Case and Educator GuideEpiloguePractitioner Guide

Peer-to-Peer Consultative Exercise Tool Kit
Tool Kit Materials

"Pressing the Right Buttons": Jennifer Musisi for New City Leadership
Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner Guide

Public Value Tool Kit

Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong
Case and Educator GuideEpiloguePractitioner Guide

The “Bilbao Effect” The Collaborative Architecture that Powered Bilbao’s Urban Revival
Case and Educator GuidePractitioner Guide

The “Garbage Lady” Cleans up Kampala: Turning Quick Wins into Lasting Change
Case and Educator GuideEpiloguePractitioner Guide

"You Have One Hundred Days": Accelerating Government Performance in the UAE
Case and Educator GuidePractitioner Guide