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Advancing City Leadership
Research and resources for city leaders to expand their problem-solving capacity, build effective city hall organizations, and improve outcomes for residents around the world
Mayors in the classroom with Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson
Research
Inter-City Collaboration: Why and How Cities Work, Learn and Advocate Together
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Featured resources
Action Insights Strategic Leadership and Management
Organizing People through Storytelling: Public Narrative as a Leadership Development Practice
Action Insights Collaboration
Inter-City Collaboration: When to Partner Up with Other Cities?
Case and Materials Data and Evidence, Innovation
Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong
Action Insights for City Leaders Collaboration, Data and Evidence, Innovation
Improving Housing and Health
Case Set Collaboration, Strategic Leadership and Management
Early-Stage Collaboration Case Set
Action Insights Collaboration
Cross-Boundary Collaborations in Cities: Where to Start
Action Insights Data and Evidence
Hidden Barriers to Open Venues: What Big Data Can Tell You about Access to Public Spaces
About us
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, located at the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University, equips mayors and senior city officials to tackle complex challenges in their cities and improve the quality of life of their residents.
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Yearlong Program
We bring together Harvard faculty, staff, and students, alongside experts from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ global network, to work with 40 mayors and their teams each year.
For Students
We offer research, resources, and experiential learning opportunities to students and future city leaders at Harvard and beyond. Explore the possibilities!
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Global reach
Around the world, cities are growing in size and importance, and mayors are leading the charge in addressing the most pressing issues we face, from creating jobs to fighting climate change. This program is aimed at helping them succeed.Michael R. Bloomberg
108th mayor of NYC and founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies
Our featured research about cities
Collaboration
Inter-city Collaboration: Why and How Cities Work, Learn and Advocate Together
Global Policy
Innovation
Tackling Persistent, Boundary-Spanning Problems Through Collaborative Innovation: Lessons From the Clean Sweep Initiative in Buffalo, NY
Administration & Society
