The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative has, since its inception in 2017, helped equip 158 mayors with critical leadership and management tools to help them do their jobs better.

Year-long program provides 38 global mayors and 76 senior city leaders with executive training and innovation skills to help deliver results for their residents...

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...