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Case Materials
"A Difficult Lady": Shutting Down Pollution in Kampala, Uganda
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide
A Task Force with Teeth?: Driving City Performance in Lawrence, MA
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide
At the Center of the Storm: San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and the Response to Hurricane Maria
Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner Guide
Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide
Charting a Course for Boston: Organizing for Change
Case
"Doing Something with Nothing" Trying to Make Kampala's Primary Schools Healthier and Safer
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide
Driving Change in São Paolo
Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner Guide
Fortaleza: Keeping an Electoral Promise
Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner 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
Mayor Curtatone's Culture of Curiosity: Building Data Capabilities at Somerville Hall
Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner Guide
Mayoral Transitions: How Three Mayors Stepped into the Role, in Their Own Words
Case
Making a Statement: Mayor Libby Schaaf and the Sanctuary City of Oakland, CA
Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner Guide
More than a Contract: Black Self-Determination and People's Assemblies in Jackson, Mississippi
Case; Epilogue
No Trust in Miracles: Leading Through a Water Crisis in Cape Town
Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner Guide
Operation Pufferfish: Building and Sustaining a Department of Neighborhoods and Citizen Engagement in Lansing, Michigan
Case
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
- Creating Public Value Concept Note and Graphics Deck
- Nobody's Core Business: Confronting Cross-cutting Problems in the Public Sector
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide - The Town Librarian and the Latchkey Children: Understanding Opportunities for Value Creation in the Public Sector
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide - Animated Videos
Making a Difference: In Search of Public Value; Creating Public Value: A Short Introduction
Reckoning with History: Confederate Monuments in American Cities
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide; Abridged Case
Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong
Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner Guide
The “Bilbao Effect” The Collaborative Architecture that Powered Bilbao’s Urban Revival
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide
The “Garbage Lady” Cleans up Kampala: Turning Quick Wins into Lasting Change
Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner Guide
"The Toughest Beat": Investing in Employee Well-Being at the Denver Sheriff Department
Case
"You Have One Hundred Days": Accelerating Government Performance in the UAE
Case and Educator Guide; Practitioner Guide