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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More than a Contract: Black Self-Determination and People's Assemblies in Jackson, Mississippi
Case and Educator GuideEpiloguePractitioner GuideSlide Deck

Operation Pufferfish: Building and Sustaining a Department of Neighborhoods and Citizen Engagement in Lansing, Michigan
Case and Educator GuideEpiloguePractitioner GuideSlide Deck

"Trust the People" Civic Engagement and Collaborative Imagination in Bologna, Italy
Case and Educator GuideEpiloguePractitioner GuideSlides

Leading Civic Engagement: Three Cases
Case and Educator GuidePractitioner Guide

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

Tackling Homelessness And Addiction: Coalition-Building In Manchester, New Hampshire
Case, Slide Deck, and Educator GuidePractitioner Guide

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

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

"The Toughest Beat": Investing in Employee Well-Being at the Denver Sheriff Department
Case

Mayor Curtatone's Culture of Curiosity: Building Data Capabilities at Somerville Hall
Case and Educator GuideEpiloguePractitioner Guide

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

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

 

"The Toughest Beat": Investing in Employee Well-Being at the Denver Sheriff Department
Case

"Doing Something with Nothing" Trying to Make Kampala's Primary Schools Healthier and Safer
Case and Educator GuidePractitioner Guide

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

Driving Change in São Paolo
Case and Educator GuideEpiloguePractitioner Guide 

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

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

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

"The Toughest Beat": Investing in Employee Well-Being at the Denver Sheriff Department
Case

Charting a Course for Boston: Organizing for Change
Case

Mayoral Transitions: How Three Mayors Stepped into the Role, in Their Own Words
Case

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

"Doing Something with Nothing" Trying to Make Kampala's Primary Schools Healthier and Safer
Case and Educator GuidePractitioner Guide

Reckoning with History: Confederate Monuments in American Cities
Case and Educator GuidePractitioner GuideAbridged Case

"A Difficult Lady": Shutting Down Pollution in Kampala, Uganda
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 

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

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

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

Galvis City Schools Collective Bargaining Simulation
Simulation and Educator Guide

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

Public Value Tool Kit