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🌍🎓Celebrating UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 International Day for Digital Learning! Today, we recognize the transformative power of digital learning. The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative is committed to advancing city leadership by providing open access to cutting-edge educational

This week we're welcoming 77 cross-sector leaders from 11 cities for an intensive week of learning and connection with Harvard University faculty affiliates of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University and other government innovation experts, with thanks to Bloomberg Philanthropies. Successful collaborations inside

Read and learn: in the Harvard University classroom this week, city leaders from 11 cities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America are studying research-backed approaches to successful cross-sector collaboration. Read and download two teaching cases from the program exploring how

Are saving money and improving government mutually exclusive goals? The city leaders in a new teaching case set from the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative don’t think so. Explore strategies to strengthen government effectiveness and efficiency in challenging times. 📖

Last week 77 cross-sector leaders from 11 cities explored real-world strategies for collaborating to address complex urban challenges, ranging from public safety to weather crises like coastal flooding. 🎤“The Initiative is helping us grow our capacity for big thinking and the

Jorrit de Jong, Harvard Kennedy School faculty member and Director of the Bloomberg Center for Cities, explains how governments can cut through red tape and improve residents’ lives⤵️. Learn about Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative peer-reviewed research and curriculum development projects, which help city

How can a city leader’s blueprint for innovation be applied to medical research? Dan Doctoroff’s innovative approach with Target ALS informs a new Harvard Kennedy School teaching case written by Pamela Varney with faculty lead and Center faculty affiliate Linda Bilmes and premiered in

Is your city hall keeping up with residents’ preferences? Amenity clusters like main streets, business districts, and cultural corridors are at the heart of a community. But with shifting preferences, how can city officials stay ahead of the curve? A study supported by the

Frustrated by the pace of progress in city hall? City leaders often face obstacles that can make solving complex problems feel time-consuming. This teaching case explores how one Massachusetts mayor used previously collected data to address a pressing city issue more effectively.

“There’s nothing as practical as a good theory.” Kurt Lewin’s maxim highlights the importance of strong theoretical frameworks for tackling real-world challenges. But how can theory help city leaders navigate the messy realities of governance? A study supported by the Bloomberg

Data-driven decision-making makes government more effective, efficient, and responsive to residents’ needs. But how should cities use data and what steps can they take to get there? Explore how organizations can become more data-informed in this new teaching case set from the

🎉Congratulations to our 2025 Summer Fellows! These talented Harvard University graduate and doctoral students have been selected to spend the summer embedded in local government in U.S. and international cities, presenting project deliverables and recommendations to mayors and senior

Cross-sector collaboration can help city leaders address complex problems—but how do you overcome setbacks? Learn about five key actions that enable progress in our latest article for city practitioners in Stanford Social Innovation Review—distilling new research findings published in the peer-reviewed

📢Open role: Join the ReBuild Initiative at the Harvard GSD in close collaboration with Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative! You: a research analyst eager to help develop a foundational framework through literature review, faculty engagement, case-study research, and practitioner engagement.

📚New research: How can city leaders address common setbacks in cross-sector collaborations? Read the article published in Stanford Social Innovation Review--based on a study supported by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative and published in JPART--to learn five approaches that

Explore how joint problem-solving, making visible impact, and continuous learning helped the city of Buffalo, NY improve quality of life in its poorest neighborhoods through the Clean Sweep Initiative in a new teaching case produced by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership

How can performance be effectively managed in collaborations that span public, private, and nonprofit sectors? A new peer-reviewed study published in Public Performance & Management Review explores the key challenges these collaborations face—from problem-solving and process coordination to

🌊 Vacation Reading with Purpose 🚀 Looking to expand your leadership toolkit? Go behind the scenes of the "Bilbao Effect" and learn from one of our most popular free teaching cases for leaders. 📘 Download, read, save→ cityleadership.harvard.edu/resources/coll… #leadership #collaboration

🔖Read new open-access research on interventions that build collaboration between residents + local government. 📊Data from the city of Buffalo, New York 📢Published in IJERPH from MDPI ✏️Authors Kate Robb, Pablo Uribe, Eleanor Dickens, Ashley Marcoux,