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A group of 21 outstanding Harvard Master’s and professional degree students was selected from a highly capable pool of more than 150 applicants from across nine Harvard Schools.

An array of initiatives brings together expertise and programming about cities from across Harvard and acts as a conduit connecting students and faculty with city leaders.

“Any challenge that’s facing the planet is affecting cities,” says Jorrit de Jong, the inaugural faculty director of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University.

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...