Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative: Teaching Cases
2021
This selection of teaching cases from the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government translate the most relevant and current knowledge about leadership, management, governance, and innovation in cities into open-access resources for teaching and learning. These cases, education guides, and practitioner guides are intended to aid mayors and city leaders in addressing critical issues through innovative thinking.
Teaching materials highlight specific social determinants of health, including transportation, housing, and other environmental factors, and would be suitable for discussion-based activities in interdisciplinary public health, development, and design classrooms. Each topic includes a case and education guide, as well as a practitioner guide. Many cases also included an epilogue. Incorporated among the teaching cases is a Peer-to-Peer Consultative Exercise Tool Kit, focusing on eliciting feedback and advice from peers in a safe environment, and a Public Value Toolkit, which provides videos, teaching cases, and a how-to guide for understanding public value creation.
Cases include:
- A Task Force with Teeth?: Driving City Performance in Lawrence, MA
- 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)
- Driving Change in São Paolo (Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner Guide)
- Fortaleza: Keeping an Electoral Promise
- Growing Pains: How a Dutch Cross-Agency Team Took On Illegal Marijuana Production in Residential Areas
- Making a Statement: Mayor Libby Schaaf and the Sanctuary City of Oakland, CA (Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner Guide)
- "Pressing the Right Buttons": Jennifer Musisi for New City Leadership
- 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
- The “Garbage Lady” Cleans up Kampala: Turning Quick Wins into Lasting Change (Case and Educator Guide; Epilogue; Practitioner Guide)
- "You Have One Hundred Days": Accelerating Government Performance in the UAE
Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative: Teaching Cases
Source:
Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative: Teaching Cases. Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government 2021. https://case.hks.harvard.edu/bloomberg-harvard-city-leadership-initiative.