Bulbul Kaul, the Initiative's Senior Program Director for City Support and Student Engagement, was featured in HKS Magazine for her work helping city leaders build stronger capabilities in their City Halls.

From housing to health care to education, cities confront problems that only effective leadership can solve. The need for innovative leadership became even more urgent during the pandemic...

In the past year, the spotlight has been trained on the nation’s mayors. American towns and cities faced unprecedented challenges brought by the medical, financial, and educational fallout of the COVID-19...

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is giving $150 million to Harvard University for a program designed to help mayors around the world more successfully lead their cities by training them...

Cities across the United States, particularly in the South, are struggling with the legacies of their Confederate past, including monuments that have sparked renewed protest and calls for removal in recent...

In the second Dean’s Discussion of the fall, HKS faculty shared insights about successes — and failures — from their own experiences to examine what role the government can play in achieving social change...

The Ash Center sat down with Kimberlyn Leary, an Ash Center faculty affiliate and key member of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative’s leadership team, to discuss how she is leveraging her...

The Ash Center sat down with HKS Senior Lecturer Jorrit de Jong, an Ash Center resident faculty member and the faculty director of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. The Initiative has been at...