The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in partnership with Harvard University is an initiative to equip mayors and their senior staff with cutting-edge tools and techniques to more effectively tackle pressing leadership and management challenges. This initiative harnesses the public sector innovation expertise of Harvard’s Kennedy School, the management expertise of Harvard’s Business School, and the extensive network of Bloomberg Philanthropies to expand and sharpen leadership skills at the highest levels of city halls across the globe.
Over the next four years, this $32 million program will engage more than 300 mayors and 400 senior aides from around the world through in-person executive education sessions convened at the Bloomberg campus in New York and via virtual classes on Harvard’s pioneering HBx Live platform. It will create an on-demand resource for mayors and staff to call for support in identifying best practices and for introductions to other city leaders. Through internship placements of Harvard students in city halls, it will provide hands-on learning experiences to train the leaders of tomorrow while simultaneously building capacity in today’s city government. And, it will generate an extraordinary amount of new curriculum, cases, and research on governance innovations and public leadership that will be made freely available online for the benefit of other individuals or institutions around the globe.
This latest Government Innovation offering complements our other efforts to support leaders, promote innovation, and encourage the use of data and evidence. For more information on the initiative, please check details at: http://bloombg.org/2bzg0X8