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City Leader Guides

City Leader Guide on Civic Engagement

Demand is growing for better forms and forums for engagement between city leaders and residents. This guide provides analytic tools, insights from theory and practice, and step-by-step process support for city leaders and staff hoping to engage residents in public problem-solving. We take civic engagement as an iterative practice that presents many possible entry points and design choices.

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City Leader Guide on Civic Engagement

Demand is growing for better forms and forums for engagement between city leaders and residents. This guide provides analytic tools, insights from theory and practice, and step-by-step process support for city leaders and staff hoping to engage residents in public problem-solving. We take civic engagement as an iterative practice that presents many possible entry points and design choices.

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City Leader Guide on Civic Engagement

Demand is growing for better forms and forums for engagement between city leaders and residents. This guide provides analytic tools, insights from theory and practice, and step-by-step process support for city leaders and staff hoping to engage residents in public problem-solving. We take civic engagement as an iterative practice that presents many possible entry points and design choices.

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The State of Access in Cities: Theory and Practice

Whether cities are places of equal opportunity or marginalization depends to a large extent on equitable access to justice, power, services, and the economy. This chapter in Governance for Urban Services examines barriers to access and promising practices that have increased access for residents.

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The State of Access in Cities: Theory and Practice

Whether cities are places of equal opportunity or marginalization depends to a large extent on equitable access to justice, power, services, and the economy. This chapter in Governance for Urban Services examines barriers to access and promising practices that have increased access for residents.

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The State of Access in Cities: Theory and Practice

Whether cities are places of equal opportunity or marginalization depends to a large extent on equitable access to justice, power, services, and the economy. This chapter in Governance for Urban Services examines barriers to access and promising practices that have increased access for residents.

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Organizing People through Storytelling: Public Narrative as a Leadership Development Practice

Why do some words move people to action while others are quickly forgotten? A new study supported by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative proposes “public narrative” as a key form of leadership development in organizations and communities. 

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Organizing People through Storytelling: Public Narrative as a Leadership Development Practice

Why do some words move people to action while others are quickly forgotten? A new study supported by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative proposes “public narrative” as a key form of leadership development in organizations and communities. 

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Organizing People through Storytelling: Public Narrative as a Leadership Development Practice

Why do some words move people to action while others are quickly forgotten? A new study supported by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative proposes “public narrative” as a key form of leadership development in organizations and communities. 

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Using Big Data for Local Decisions: Which Demolitions Reduce Gun Violence Most?

Which abandoned properties should rise to the top of the demolition list? Since workloads often exceed and outpace government resources, prioritizing work strategically is a critical capability. A new study demonstrates how combining satellite imagery and police data can help inform how to allocate resources in code enforcement.

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Using Big Data for Local Decisions: Which Demolitions Reduce Gun Violence Most?

Which abandoned properties should rise to the top of the demolition list? Since workloads often exceed and outpace government resources, prioritizing work strategically is a critical capability. A new study demonstrates how combining satellite imagery and police data can help inform how to allocate resources in code enforcement.

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Using Big Data for Local Decisions: Which Demolitions Reduce Gun Violence Most?

Which abandoned properties should rise to the top of the demolition list? Since workloads often exceed and outpace government resources, prioritizing work strategically is a critical capability. A new study demonstrates how combining satellite imagery and police data can help inform how to allocate resources in code enforcement.

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Keeping Your Eyes on the Horizon: The “Four Ps” Framework for Strategic Leadership

How do you lead strategically? Moving an organization forward requires paying attention, simultaneously, to multiple dimensions of a team’s experience—like a pilot constantly scanning the dials on a plane’s dashboard during flight. A new paper offers a framework for executing strategic leadership while balancing competing demands.

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Keeping Your Eyes on the Horizon: The “Four Ps” Framework for Strategic Leadership

How do you lead strategically? Moving an organization forward requires paying attention, simultaneously, to multiple dimensions of a team’s experience—like a pilot constantly scanning the dials on a plane’s dashboard during flight. A new paper offers a framework for executing strategic leadership while balancing competing demands.

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Keeping Your Eyes on the Horizon: The “Four Ps” Framework for Strategic Leadership

How do you lead strategically? Moving an organization forward requires paying attention, simultaneously, to multiple dimensions of a team’s experience—like a pilot constantly scanning the dials on a plane’s dashboard during flight. A new paper offers a framework for executing strategic leadership while balancing competing demands.

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Galvis City Schools Collective Bargaining Simulation

Based on real-world public-sector labor negotiations in modern America, this three year simulation explores collective bargaining via a spectrum of coalitions including state representatives, teachers, and facilitators.

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Galvis City Schools Collective Bargaining Simulation

Based on real-world public-sector labor negotiations in modern America, this three year simulation explores collective bargaining via a spectrum of coalitions including state representatives, teachers, and facilitators.

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Galvis City Schools Collective Bargaining Simulation

Based on real-world public-sector labor negotiations in modern America, this three year simulation explores collective bargaining via a spectrum of coalitions including state representatives, teachers, and facilitators.

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City Leader Guide on Organizational Culture Change: Creating Conditions for Innovation, Collaboration, and High Performance in City Hall
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City Leader Guide on Organizational Culture Change

This guide helps city leaders and staff systematically evaluate and transform organizational culture to align with their administration’s vision and values. It defines organizational culture and offers:

  • A framework for assessing and implementing change;
  • Real-world examples that show what organizational transformation can look like, what works, and what doesn’t;
  • A self-assessment that helps cities advance change by identifying areas needing urgent attention as well as appreciating progress.
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City Leader Guide on Organizational Culture Change: Creating Conditions for Innovation, Collaboration, and High Performance in City Hall
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City Leader Guide on Organizational Culture Change

This guide helps city leaders and staff systematically evaluate and transform organizational culture to align with their administration’s vision and values. It defines organizational culture and offers:

  • A framework for assessing and implementing change;
  • Real-world examples that show what organizational transformation can look like, what works, and what doesn’t;
  • A self-assessment that helps cities advance change by identifying areas needing urgent attention as well as appreciating progress.
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City Leader Guide on Organizational Culture Change: Creating Conditions for Innovation, Collaboration, and High Performance in City Hall
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City Leader Guide on Organizational Culture Change

This guide helps city leaders and staff systematically evaluate and transform organizational culture to align with their administration’s vision and values. It defines organizational culture and offers:

  • A framework for assessing and implementing change;
  • Real-world examples that show what organizational transformation can look like, what works, and what doesn’t;
  • A self-assessment that helps cities advance change by identifying areas needing urgent attention as well as appreciating progress.
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All Minds on Deck! Engaging Employees in Strategic Work

In a networked world, employees at every level of the organization need to navigate complex issues and act strategically—not only at the top layer. How can leadership and human resources best engage and support employees?

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All Minds on Deck! Engaging Employees in Strategic Work

In a networked world, employees at every level of the organization need to navigate complex issues and act strategically—not only at the top layer. How can leadership and human resources best engage and support employees?

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All Minds on Deck! Engaging Employees in Strategic Work

In a networked world, employees at every level of the organization need to navigate complex issues and act strategically—not only at the top layer. How can leadership and human resources best engage and support employees?

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Eight Types of Power City Leaders Can Use When Negotiating

Do you know your full arsenal of power moves when you’re at the negotiating table? Here is how city leaders can better understand power in public negotiations.

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Eight Types of Power City Leaders Can Use When Negotiating

Do you know your full arsenal of power moves when you’re at the negotiating table? Here is how city leaders can better understand power in public negotiations.

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Eight Types of Power City Leaders Can Use When Negotiating

Do you know your full arsenal of power moves when you’re at the negotiating table? Here is how city leaders can better understand power in public negotiations.

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More than the Sum of the Parts: Integrating Housing Inspections and Social Services to Improve Community Health

Housing inspectors often witness hidden and serious threats to public health yet lack the tools and training necessary to respond. Integrating referrals for social services within home inspections could be one solution.

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More than the Sum of the Parts: Integrating Housing Inspections and Social Services to Improve Community Health

Housing inspectors often witness hidden and serious threats to public health yet lack the tools and training necessary to respond. Integrating referrals for social services within home inspections could be one solution.

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More than the Sum of the Parts: Integrating Housing Inspections and Social Services to Improve Community Health

Housing inspectors often witness hidden and serious threats to public health yet lack the tools and training necessary to respond. Integrating referrals for social services within home inspections could be one solution.

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Making Sense of It All: Using Analytical Tools in Everyday Work

Thinking and acting strategically is central to effective public management. Public Value Theory offers analytic tools to help public managers guide inquiry and shape decisions.

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Making Sense of It All: Using Analytical Tools in Everyday Work

Thinking and acting strategically is central to effective public management. Public Value Theory offers analytic tools to help public managers guide inquiry and shape decisions.

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Making Sense of It All: Using Analytical Tools in Everyday Work

Thinking and acting strategically is central to effective public management. Public Value Theory offers analytic tools to help public managers guide inquiry and shape decisions.

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Tackling Big, Thorny Problems by Building the Capabilities Your Organization Needs: A New Approach Placing the Right Partners, Data, and Solutions at the Center

Bringing partners together around complex social issues and sustaining a joint effort demands capabilities that are often underdeveloped in public organizations. A new study outlines how investing in collaborative, analytical, and reflective capabilities can help governments solve problems more effectively.

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Tackling Big, Thorny Problems by Building the Capabilities Your Organization Needs: A New Approach Placing the Right Partners, Data, and Solutions at the Center

Bringing partners together around complex social issues and sustaining a joint effort demands capabilities that are often underdeveloped in public organizations. A new study outlines how investing in collaborative, analytical, and reflective capabilities can help governments solve problems more effectively.

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Tackling Big, Thorny Problems by Building the Capabilities Your Organization Needs: A New Approach Placing the Right Partners, Data, and Solutions at the Center

Bringing partners together around complex social issues and sustaining a joint effort demands capabilities that are often underdeveloped in public organizations. A new study outlines how investing in collaborative, analytical, and reflective capabilities can help governments solve problems more effectively.

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Special Session on Omicron Variant

During this session, we heard from experts from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, including Josh Sharfstein, MD and David Dowdy, MD, PhD, who gave a COVID-19 situation report...



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Special Session on Omicron Variant

During this session, we heard from experts from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, including Josh Sharfstein, MD and David Dowdy, MD, PhD, who gave a COVID-19 situation report...



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Special Session on Omicron Variant

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Further Inspection: Integrating Housing Code Enforcement and Social Services to Improve Community Health

City housing inspectors witness hidden and serious threats to public health. In this article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, we explore integrating a novel Social Service Referral Program within the Inspectional Services Department in Chelsea, MA.

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Further Inspection: Integrating Housing Code Enforcement and Social Services to Improve Community Health

City housing inspectors witness hidden and serious threats to public health. In this article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, we explore integrating a novel Social Service Referral Program within the Inspectional Services Department in Chelsea, MA.

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Further Inspection: Integrating Housing Code Enforcement and Social Services to Improve Community Health

City housing inspectors witness hidden and serious threats to public health. In this article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, we explore integrating a novel Social Service Referral Program within the Inspectional Services Department in Chelsea, MA.

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Mayor Curtatone’s Culture of Curiosity: Building Data Capabilities at Somerville City Hall

The overarching learning objectives of this case are designed to help participants explore and understand 1) why to use data; 2) how to use data; and 3) what to do to become—and remain—a more informed city hall.

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Mayor Curtatone’s Culture of Curiosity: Building Data Capabilities at Somerville City Hall

The overarching learning objectives of this case are designed to help participants explore and understand 1) why to use data; 2) how to use data; and 3) what to do to become—and remain—a more informed city hall.

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Mayor Curtatone’s Culture of Curiosity: Building Data Capabilities at Somerville City Hall

The overarching learning objectives of this case are designed to help participants explore and understand 1) why to use data; 2) how to use data; and 3) what to do to become—and remain—a more informed city hall.

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Teaming Up to Tackle Crime: Making Multi-Agency Collaboration Happen in Cities

Cross-boundary collaborations typically face three types of challenges: substantive problem-solving challenges, accountability challenges, and teaming challenges. This article in Public Manage...

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Teaming Up to Tackle Crime: Making Multi-Agency Collaboration Happen in Cities

Cross-boundary collaborations typically face three types of challenges: substantive problem-solving challenges, accountability challenges, and teaming challenges. This article in Public Manage...

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Teaming Up to Tackle Crime: Making Multi-Agency Collaboration Happen in Cities

Cross-boundary collaborations typically face three types of challenges: substantive problem-solving challenges, accountability challenges, and teaming challenges. This article in Public Manage...

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How Rockford Changed Course to Tackle Veterans’ Homelessness: Using Data to Diagnose and Remedy Complex Problems

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand how to build data-analytic capabilities designed to tackle tough urban problems that require a...

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How Rockford Changed Course to Tackle Veterans’ Homelessness: Using Data to Diagnose and Remedy Complex Problems

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How Rockford Changed Course to Tackle Veterans’ Homelessness: Using Data to Diagnose and Remedy Complex Problems

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City Leader Guide on Equitable Economic Development

This guide helps city leaders translate their commitment to economic equity, inclusive growth, and racial justice into action, especially as they lead economic recovery post-COVID-19. The guide offers: a diagnostic tool to assess the organizational readiness of city hall to do the work; a diagnostic tool to assess the current state of their local economy and identify equity gaps; guidance on setting meaningful goals and benchmarks, and developing relevant metrics; an overview of promising practices in equitable economic development from around the country; and guidance on implementing new approaches.

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City Leader Guide on Equitable Economic Development

This guide helps city leaders translate their commitment to economic equity, inclusive growth, and racial justice into action, especially as they lead economic recovery post-COVID-19. The guide offers: a diagnostic tool to assess the organizational readiness of city hall to do the work; a diagnostic tool to assess the current state of their local economy and identify equity gaps; guidance on setting meaningful goals and benchmarks, and developing relevant metrics; an overview of promising practices in equitable economic development from around the country; and guidance on implementing new approaches.

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City Leader Guide on Equitable Economic Development

This guide helps city leaders translate their commitment to economic equity, inclusive growth, and racial justice into action, especially as they lead economic recovery post-COVID-19. The guide offers: a diagnostic tool to assess the organizational readiness of city hall to do the work; a diagnostic tool to assess the current state of their local economy and identify equity gaps; guidance on setting meaningful goals and benchmarks, and developing relevant metrics; an overview of promising practices in equitable economic development from around the country; and guidance on implementing new approaches.

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City Leader Guide on Fiscal Resilience

City leaders, faced with converging health and economic crises, have to radically rethink their budgets and make tough decisions. This guide and companion website help city leaders diagnose and address fiscal challenges, access relevant resources, and identify leadership levers in order to move cities out of crisis and towards fiscal resiliency.

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City Leader Guide on Fiscal Resilience

City leaders, faced with converging health and economic crises, have to radically rethink their budgets and make tough decisions. This guide and companion website help city leaders diagnose and address fiscal challenges, access relevant resources, and identify leadership levers in order to move cities out of crisis and towards fiscal resiliency.

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City Leader Guide on Fiscal Resilience

City leaders, faced with converging health and economic crises, have to radically rethink their budgets and make tough decisions. This guide and companion website help city leaders diagnose and address fiscal challenges, access relevant resources, and identify leadership levers in order to move cities out of crisis and towards fiscal resiliency.

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Assessing Distributed Strategic Capacity in Public-Sector Organizations
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All Minds on Deck? Assessing Distributed Strategic Capacity in Public-Sector Organizations

Networked governance requires public managers to think and act strategically across their organization. Leaders need to be able to assess their strategic capacity to do this work well.

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All Minds on Deck? Assessing Distributed Strategic Capacity in Public-Sector Organizations

Networked governance requires public managers to think and act strategically across their organization. Leaders need to be able to assess their strategic capacity to do this work well.

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All Minds on Deck? Assessing Distributed Strategic Capacity in Public-Sector Organizations

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Special Session: COVID-19 Delta Variant: Science, Challenges, and Policy Implications

Andrew Pekosz, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Josh Sharfstein...

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Special Session: COVID-19 Delta Variant: Science, Challenges, and Policy Implications

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Special Session: COVID-19 Delta Variant: Science, Challenges, and Policy Implications

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When Innovation Causes Conflict: Ostrich, Chameleon, and Dolphin Strategies in the Public Sector

Public sector innovation often involves disputes over what is most important. All too frequently, these “value conflicts” can undermine or even derail the new policy, tool, program, or process...

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When Innovation Causes Conflict: Ostrich, Chameleon, and Dolphin Strategies in the Public Sector

Public sector innovation often involves disputes over what is most important. All too frequently, these “value conflicts” can undermine or even derail the new policy, tool, program, or process...

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When Innovation Causes Conflict: Ostrich, Chameleon, and Dolphin Strategies in the Public Sector

Public sector innovation often involves disputes over what is most important. All too frequently, these “value conflicts” can undermine or even derail the new policy, tool, program, or process...

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Why Your Innovation Workspace Matters: Designing an Environment for Creating New Policy Solutions

Complex social issues cannot be solved by individual organizations. Yet cross-boundary collaboration is by no means a simple or easy process. So what can you do to innovate across organizational silos effectively?

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Why Your Innovation Workspace Matters: Designing an Environment for Creating New Policy Solutions

Complex social issues cannot be solved by individual organizations. Yet cross-boundary collaboration is by no means a simple or easy process. So what can you do to innovate across organizational silos effectively?

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Why Your Innovation Workspace Matters: Designing an Environment for Creating New Policy Solutions

Complex social issues cannot be solved by individual organizations. Yet cross-boundary collaboration is by no means a simple or easy process. So what can you do to innovate across organizational silos effectively?

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Responding to the Opioid Crisis: Three Teaching Cases

This set of teaching cases explores the opioid crisis from different angles and perspectives in city government. The premise is that there are no “quick fixes” or technical solutions available...

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Responding to the Opioid Crisis: Three Teaching Cases

This set of teaching cases explores the opioid crisis from different angles and perspectives in city government. The premise is that there are no “quick fixes” or technical solutions available...

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Responding to the Opioid Crisis: Three Teaching Cases

This set of teaching cases explores the opioid crisis from different angles and perspectives in city government. The premise is that there are no “quick fixes” or technical solutions available...

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Session XII: Situational Briefing and Leadership Essentials: Endings & Beginnings

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health discussed how the pandemic has changed...

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Session XII: Situational Briefing and Leadership Essentials: Endings & Beginnings

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health discussed how the pandemic has changed...

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Session XII: Situational Briefing and Leadership Essentials: Endings & Beginnings

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health discussed how the pandemic has changed...

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Special Session for Bloomberg Harvard Mayors: Leading Public Safety Reform in Cities

Mayors can play an important role in making their cities safer and more just. That work starts with asking the question what public safety and racial justice mean.

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Special Session for Bloomberg Harvard Mayors: Leading Public Safety Reform in Cities

Mayors can play an important role in making their cities safer and more just. That work starts with asking the question what public safety and racial justice mean.

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Special Session for Bloomberg Harvard Mayors: Leading Public Safety Reform in Cities

Mayors can play an important role in making their cities safer and more just. That work starts with asking the question what public safety and racial justice mean.

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Session XI: A Public Health Briefing on Epidemic Forecasting and Leadership Essentials: Communicating in a Busy World

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Caitlin M. Rivers, Senior Scholar at the...

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Session XI: A Public Health Briefing on Epidemic Forecasting and Leadership Essentials: Communicating in a Busy World

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Caitlin M. Rivers, Senior Scholar at the...

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Session XI: A Public Health Briefing on Epidemic Forecasting and Leadership Essentials: Communicating in a Busy World

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Caitlin M. Rivers, Senior Scholar at the...

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Reducing Harm: Overdose Prevention in Philadelphia

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Reducing Harm: Overdose Prevention in Philadelphia

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Reducing Harm: Overdose Prevention in Philadelphia

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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No Trust in Miracles: Leading Through a Water Crisis in Cape Town

This case is designed to help senior leaders in government better understand the need for adaptive leadership when dealing with crises, and the skills required for this work. In particular, the case...

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No Trust in Miracles: Leading Through a Water Crisis in Cape Town

This case is designed to help senior leaders in government better understand the need for adaptive leadership when dealing with crises, and the skills required for this work. In particular, the case...

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No Trust in Miracles: Leading Through a Water Crisis in Cape Town

This case is designed to help senior leaders in government better understand the need for adaptive leadership when dealing with crises, and the skills required for this work. In particular, the case...

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Doing Something With Nothing: Trying to Make Kampala’s Primary Schools Safer and Healthier

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand how to mobilize resources for important priorities based on public spirit, especially when it...

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Doing Something With Nothing: Trying to Make Kampala’s Primary Schools Safer and Healthier

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand how to mobilize resources for important priorities based on public spirit, especially when it...

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Doing Something With Nothing: Trying to Make Kampala’s Primary Schools Safer and Healthier

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand how to mobilize resources for important priorities based on public spirit, especially when it...

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Session X: A Public Health Briefing on Vaccine Rollout and Leadership Essentials: Remote Work Revolution

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and E. Oscar Alleyne, Chief of Programs and Services for...

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Session X: A Public Health Briefing on Vaccine Rollout and Leadership Essentials: Remote Work Revolution

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and E. Oscar Alleyne, Chief of Programs and Services for...

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Session X: A Public Health Briefing on Vaccine Rollout and Leadership Essentials: Remote Work Revolution

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and E. Oscar Alleyne, Chief of Programs and Services for...

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Saving Lives, Time, and Money: Using Data to Find Unsafe and Unhealthy Buildings Faster

Is it possible to save lives, time, and money, all at once? Could you use data that you already have to do it? A new study shows that machine learning can help housing inspectors identify risky...

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Saving Lives, Time, and Money: Using Data to Find Unsafe and Unhealthy Buildings Faster

Is it possible to save lives, time, and money, all at once? Could you use data that you already have to do it? A new study shows that machine learning can help housing inspectors identify risky...

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Saving Lives, Time, and Money: Using Data to Find Unsafe and Unhealthy Buildings Faster

Is it possible to save lives, time, and money, all at once? Could you use data that you already have to do it? A new study shows that machine learning can help housing inspectors identify risky...

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Using Integrated City Data and Machine Learning to Identify and Intervene Early on Housing-Related Public Health Problems

Housing inspection ensures minimum health and safety standards in rental housing. This article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice shows how machine learning can help inspectors...

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Using Integrated City Data and Machine Learning to Identify and Intervene Early on Housing-Related Public Health Problems

Housing inspection ensures minimum health and safety standards in rental housing. This article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice shows how machine learning can help inspectors...

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Using Integrated City Data and Machine Learning to Identify and Intervene Early on Housing-Related Public Health Problems

Housing inspection ensures minimum health and safety standards in rental housing. This article in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice shows how machine learning can help inspectors...

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Sources of Power in Public Negotiations: A Framework Applied to Public‐Public and Public‐Private Negotiations

Negotiators are often left wondering how to identify and leverage various sources of power. This article in Negotiation Journal presents a new structure for analyzing power in the public sector...

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Sources of Power in Public Negotiations: A Framework Applied to Public‐Public and Public‐Private Negotiations

Negotiators are often left wondering how to identify and leverage various sources of power. This article in Negotiation Journal presents a new structure for analyzing power in the public sector...

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Sources of Power in Public Negotiations: A Framework Applied to Public‐Public and Public‐Private Negotiations

Negotiators are often left wondering how to identify and leverage various sources of power. This article in Negotiation Journal presents a new structure for analyzing power in the public sector...

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Mapping the Five Genes of an Innovative City Hall

One innovation doesn’t change things. A culture of innovation does. This article on Apolitical examines what makes innovative municipal organizations innovate effectively and repeatedly.

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Mapping the Five Genes of an Innovative City Hall

One innovation doesn’t change things. A culture of innovation does. This article on Apolitical examines what makes innovative municipal organizations innovate effectively and repeatedly.

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Mapping the Five Genes of an Innovative City Hall

One innovation doesn’t change things. A culture of innovation does. This article on Apolitical examines what makes innovative municipal organizations innovate effectively and repeatedly.

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Bilbao Was Built on Innovation—Can It Repeat the Miracle?

For the city’s next chapter, Bilbao can look to its past. This article on Apolitical examines the architecture of collaboration that helped Bilbao revitalize its economy.

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Bilbao Was Built on Innovation—Can It Repeat the Miracle?

For the city’s next chapter, Bilbao can look to its past. This article on Apolitical examines the architecture of collaboration that helped Bilbao revitalize its economy.

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Bilbao Was Built on Innovation—Can It Repeat the Miracle?

For the city’s next chapter, Bilbao can look to its past. This article on Apolitical examines the architecture of collaboration that helped Bilbao revitalize its economy.

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The Art of Governing Through Questions

Dealing with the problems public leaders face requires knowing how and what to ask. This article in Governing examines various ways in which thoughtful and focused inquiry can be used as a leadership tool.

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The Art of Governing Through Questions

Dealing with the problems public leaders face requires knowing how and what to ask. This article in Governing examines various ways in which thoughtful and focused inquiry can be used as a leadership tool.

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The Art of Governing Through Questions

Dealing with the problems public leaders face requires knowing how and what to ask. This article in Governing examines various ways in which thoughtful and focused inquiry can be used as a leadership tool.

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Designing Environments for Experimentation, Learning and Innovation in Collaborative Governance

Working across organizational silos is a highly challenging endeavor, and success depends on the attention and support given to the act of collaboration itself. This article in Policy and Politics...

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Designing Environments for Experimentation, Learning and Innovation in Collaborative Governance

Working across organizational silos is a highly challenging endeavor, and success depends on the attention and support given to the act of collaboration itself. This article in Policy and Politics...

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Designing Environments for Experimentation, Learning and Innovation in Collaborative Governance

Working across organizational silos is a highly challenging endeavor, and success depends on the attention and support given to the act of collaboration itself. This article in Policy and Politics...

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Managing Value Conflicts in Public Innovation: Ostrich, Chameleon, and Dolphin Strategies

Value conflicts are inherent in public innovation. This article in the International Journal of Public Administration argues that responsible and effective innovators should pay at least as much...

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Managing Value Conflicts in Public Innovation: Ostrich, Chameleon, and Dolphin Strategies

Value conflicts are inherent in public innovation. This article in the International Journal of Public Administration argues that responsible and effective innovators should pay at least as much...

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Managing Value Conflicts in Public Innovation: Ostrich, Chameleon, and Dolphin Strategies

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Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership

The ability to exercise leadership effectively requires skills and capacities that must be developed. Mostly, leadership is non-heroic and involves painstaking work, paying attention, and being able...

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Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership

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Leading with Intentionality: The 4P Framework for Strategic Leadership

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Session IX: A Public Health Briefing on Vaccine Approaches and Leadership Essentials: Rebuilding Civic Trust

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Letitia Dzirasa, Commissioner of Health at the...

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Session IX: A Public Health Briefing on Vaccine Approaches and Leadership Essentials: Rebuilding Civic Trust

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Letitia Dzirasa, Commissioner of Health at the...

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Session IX: A Public Health Briefing on Vaccine Approaches and Leadership Essentials: Rebuilding Civic Trust

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Letitia Dzirasa, Commissioner of Health at the...

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Building Cities' Collaborative Muscle

The most pressing social problems facing cities today require multi-agency and cross-sector solutions. We offer tools and techniques to facilitate the process of diagnosing and solving problems...

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Building Cities' Collaborative Muscle

The most pressing social problems facing cities today require multi-agency and cross-sector solutions. We offer tools and techniques to facilitate the process of diagnosing and solving problems...

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Building Cities' Collaborative Muscle

The most pressing social problems facing cities today require multi-agency and cross-sector solutions. We offer tools and techniques to facilitate the process of diagnosing and solving problems...

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Session VIII: A Public Health Briefing on New COVID-19 Variants and Leadership Essentials: Managing Difficult Conversations

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Andrew Pekosz, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and...

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Session VIII: A Public Health Briefing on New COVID-19 Variants and Leadership Essentials: Managing Difficult Conversations

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Andrew Pekosz, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and...

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Session VIII: A Public Health Briefing on New COVID-19 Variants and Leadership Essentials: Managing Difficult Conversations

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Andrew Pekosz, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and...

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Session VII: A Public Health Briefing On COVID-19 Prevention During Holidays & Leadership Essentials: Reframing the Public Policy Debate on Economic Development to Focus on “Good Jobs” Creation

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Caitlin Rivers, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins...

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Session VII: A Public Health Briefing On COVID-19 Prevention During Holidays & Leadership Essentials: Reframing the Public Policy Debate on Economic Development to Focus on “Good Jobs” Creation

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Caitlin Rivers, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins...

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Session VII: A Public Health Briefing On COVID-19 Prevention During Holidays & Leadership Essentials: Reframing the Public Policy Debate on Economic Development to Focus on “Good Jobs” Creation

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Reckoning with History: Confederate Monuments in American Cities

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Reckoning with History: Confederate Monuments in American Cities

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Reckoning with History: Confederate Monuments in American Cities

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Moral Leadership Teaching Case Set

This set of materials is designed to help leaders understand and evaluate challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions. Each of the cases focuses on a city leader forced to make a particular moral choice.

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Moral Leadership Teaching Case Set

This set of materials is designed to help leaders understand and evaluate challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions. Each of the cases focuses on a city leader forced to make a particular moral choice.

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Moral Leadership Teaching Case Set

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“A Difficult Lady”: Shutting Down Pollution In Kampala, Uganda

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“A Difficult Lady”: Shutting Down Pollution In Kampala, Uganda

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“A Difficult Lady”: Shutting Down Pollution In Kampala, Uganda

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Session VI: A Public Health Briefing on Vaccines & Leadership Essentials: An Opportunity to Reimagine an Economy Built on Dignity

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Ruth Karron, Professor of International Health...

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Session VI: A Public Health Briefing on Vaccines & Leadership Essentials: An Opportunity to Reimagine an Economy Built on Dignity

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Ruth Karron, Professor of International Health...

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Session VI: A Public Health Briefing on Vaccines & Leadership Essentials: An Opportunity to Reimagine an Economy Built on Dignity

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Session V: A Public Health Briefing on Indoor Ventilation Slowing Spread of COVID-19 & Crisis Leadership Essentials: Pre-existing Inequality, COVID-19 & Equitable Recovery

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Ana Maria Rule, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...

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Session V: A Public Health Briefing on Indoor Ventilation Slowing Spread of COVID-19 & Crisis Leadership Essentials: Pre-existing Inequality, COVID-19 & Equitable Recovery

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Ana Maria Rule, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...

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Session V: A Public Health Briefing on Indoor Ventilation Slowing Spread of COVID-19 & Crisis Leadership Essentials: Pre-existing Inequality, COVID-19 & Equitable Recovery

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Ana Maria Rule, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health...

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At the Center of the Storm: San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and the Response to Hurricane Maria

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At the Center of the Storm: San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and the Response to Hurricane Maria

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At the Center of the Storm: San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and the Response to Hurricane Maria

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Peer-to-Peer Consultation Exercise Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to facilitate feedback and advice from peers in an open and psychologically safe environment, inviting greater clarity and focus to challenges that peers face, especially leadership challenges.

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Peer-to-Peer Consultation Exercise Tool Kit

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Peer-to-Peer Consultation Exercise Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to facilitate feedback and advice from peers in an open and psychologically safe environment, inviting greater clarity and focus to challenges that peers face, especially leadership challenges.

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Leading Change
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COVID-19 Resources

Session IV: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Briefing on Masks and Crisis Leadership Essentials: Understanding and Supporting the Commercial Sector

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Monica Gandhi, Professor of Medicine and Associate...

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Session IV: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Briefing on Masks and Crisis Leadership Essentials: Understanding and Supporting the Commercial Sector

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Monica Gandhi, Professor of Medicine and Associate...

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Session IV: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Briefing on Masks and Crisis Leadership Essentials: Understanding and Supporting the Commercial Sector

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Dr. Monica Gandhi, Professor of Medicine and Associate...

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Leading Social + Economic Recovery Series
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Session VI: Situational Briefing and COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era

Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, and former Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provided a situational...

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Session VI: Situational Briefing and COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era

Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, and former Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provided a situational...

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Session VI: Situational Briefing and COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era

Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, and former Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provided a situational...

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Leading Through Crisis: Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and Africa
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Session V: Situational Briefing & Leadership and the Politics of Change

Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, and former Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provided...

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Session V: Situational Briefing & Leadership and the Politics of Change

Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, and former Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provided...

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Session V: Situational Briefing & Leadership and the Politics of Change

Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, and former Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provided...

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Leading Through Crisis: Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and Africa
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Session III: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Focus on Vaccinations and Crisis Leadership Essentials: Leading Your City Effectively in a Rapidly Changing Context

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provided a briefing of critical public health information...

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Session III: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Focus on Vaccinations and Crisis Leadership Essentials: Leading Your City Effectively in a Rapidly Changing Context

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provided a briefing of critical public health information...

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Session III: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Focus on Vaccinations and Crisis Leadership Essentials: Leading Your City Effectively in a Rapidly Changing Context

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provided a briefing of critical public health information...

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Leading Social + Economic Recovery Series
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Session IV: Situational Briefing & Fiscal Challenges During an Economic Crisis

Dr. Carissa Etienne, Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization and Director of the Pan American Health Organization, provided...

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Session IV: Situational Briefing & Fiscal Challenges During an Economic Crisis

Dr. Carissa Etienne, Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization and Director of the Pan American Health Organization, provided...

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Session IV: Situational Briefing & Fiscal Challenges During an Economic Crisis

Dr. Carissa Etienne, Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization and Director of the Pan American Health Organization, provided...

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Leading Through Crisis: Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and Africa
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COVID-19 Crisis Leadership Essentials for Mayors

For each session of the COVID-19 Local Response Initiative, faculty and staff at the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative worked with professors from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harv...

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COVID-19 Crisis Leadership Essentials for Mayors

For each session of the COVID-19 Local Response Initiative, faculty and staff at the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative worked with professors from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harv...

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COVID-19 Crisis Leadership Essentials for Mayors

For each session of the COVID-19 Local Response Initiative, faculty and staff at the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative worked with professors from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harv...

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COVID-19 Resources
COVID-19 Local Response Sessions
Crisis Leadership
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Session III: Situational Briefing & Leadership Lessons from Africa and Latin America

Amanda McClelland, Senior Vice President of Prevent Epidemics at Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of the global health organization Vital Strategies, provided a briefing of critical public...

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Session III: Situational Briefing & Leadership Lessons from Africa and Latin America

Amanda McClelland, Senior Vice President of Prevent Epidemics at Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of the global health organization Vital Strategies, provided a briefing of critical public...

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Session III: Situational Briefing & Leadership Lessons from Africa and Latin America

Amanda McClelland, Senior Vice President of Prevent Epidemics at Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of the global health organization Vital Strategies, provided a briefing of critical public...

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Leading Civic Engagement: Three Cases

These three short cases chronicle city officials leading civic engagement and public participation initiatives in pursuit of public goals. From a variety of positions in city government, the protag...

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Leading Civic Engagement: Three Cases

These three short cases chronicle city officials leading civic engagement and public participation initiatives in pursuit of public goals. From a variety of positions in city government, the protag...

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Leading Civic Engagement: Three Cases

These three short cases chronicle city officials leading civic engagement and public participation initiatives in pursuit of public goals. From a variety of positions in city government, the protag...

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Engaging Communities
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Session II: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Focus on How to Safely Reopen Schools & Crisis Leadership Essentials: Staying on Message in Volatile Times

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provided a briefing of critical public health information...

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Session II: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Focus on How to Safely Reopen Schools & Crisis Leadership Essentials: Staying on Message in Volatile Times

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provided a briefing of critical public health information...

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Session II: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Focus on How to Safely Reopen Schools & Crisis Leadership Essentials: Staying on Message in Volatile Times

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provided a briefing of critical public health information...

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Session II: Situational Briefing & Crisis Leadership Essentials

Dr. Cyrus Shahpar, Director of the Prevent Epidemics Team at Resolve to Save Lives, provided a briefing of critical public health information on COVID-19 in...

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Session II: Situational Briefing & Crisis Leadership Essentials

Dr. Cyrus Shahpar, Director of the Prevent Epidemics Team at Resolve to Save Lives, provided a briefing of critical public health information on COVID-19 in...

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Session II: Situational Briefing & Crisis Leadership Essentials

Dr. Cyrus Shahpar, Director of the Prevent Epidemics Team at Resolve to Save Lives, provided a briefing of critical public health information on COVID-19 in...

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Leading Through Crisis: Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and Africa
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Public Value Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to help educators and practitioners understand, utilize, and share the core concepts of the public value framework.

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Public Value Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to help educators and practitioners understand, utilize, and share the core concepts of the public value framework.

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Public Value Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to help educators and practitioners understand, utilize, and share the core concepts of the public value framework.

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Adaptive Leadership
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Growing Pains: How a Dutch Cross-Agency Team Took on Illegal Marijuana Production in Residential Areas

The case navigates the challenges facing a new task force that needs to collaborate on defining the problem, collaborating effectively, and holding each other accountable.

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Growing Pains: How a Dutch Cross-Agency Team Took on Illegal Marijuana Production in Residential Areas

The case navigates the challenges facing a new task force that needs to collaborate on defining the problem, collaborating effectively, and holding each other accountable.

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Growing Pains: How a Dutch Cross-Agency Team Took on Illegal Marijuana Production in Residential Areas

The case navigates the challenges facing a new task force that needs to collaborate on defining the problem, collaborating effectively, and holding each other accountable.

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Collaboration
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Session I: Situational Briefing & Possible Futures: Mastering the Managerial Tool of Scenario Planning

In the first session, Dr. Cyrus Shahpar, Director of the Prevent Epidemics Team at Resolve to Save Lives, provided a briefing of critical public health information on COVID-19 in Latin America and Africa and...

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Session I: Situational Briefing & Possible Futures: Mastering the Managerial Tool of Scenario Planning

In the first session, Dr. Cyrus Shahpar, Director of the Prevent Epidemics Team at Resolve to Save Lives, provided a briefing of critical public health information on COVID-19 in Latin America and Africa and...

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Session I: Situational Briefing & Possible Futures: Mastering the Managerial Tool of Scenario Planning

In the first session, Dr. Cyrus Shahpar, Director of the Prevent Epidemics Team at Resolve to Save Lives, provided a briefing of critical public health information on COVID-19 in Latin America and Africa and...

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Leading Through Crisis: Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and Africa
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Many Ways to Get There: Securing Public Investments in Richmond, Virginia

This case focuses on how positional bargaining prevents creative deal-making when negotiators fail to understand the interests of other parties.

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Many Ways to Get There: Securing Public Investments in Richmond, Virginia

This case focuses on how positional bargaining prevents creative deal-making when negotiators fail to understand the interests of other parties.

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Many Ways to Get There: Securing Public Investments in Richmond, Virginia

This case focuses on how positional bargaining prevents creative deal-making when negotiators fail to understand the interests of other parties.

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Negotiation
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Beyond the Table: Infrastructure Development in Kampala, Uganda

This case focuses on how a well-organized setup and interpersonal strategies can create the necessary conditions to design better deals.

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Beyond the Table: Infrastructure Development in Kampala, Uganda

This case focuses on how a well-organized setup and interpersonal strategies can create the necessary conditions to design better deals.

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Beyond the Table: Infrastructure Development in Kampala, Uganda

This case focuses on how a well-organized setup and interpersonal strategies can create the necessary conditions to design better deals.

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Negotiation
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In the Green: Negotiating Rail Expansion in Somerville, Massachusetts

This case is designed as the capstone case in a series of negotiation cases developed by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. It is recommended for participants with some negotiation experience.

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In the Green: Negotiating Rail Expansion in Somerville, Massachusetts

This case is designed as the capstone case in a series of negotiation cases developed by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. It is recommended for participants with some negotiation experience.

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In the Green: Negotiating Rail Expansion in Somerville, Massachusetts

This case is designed as the capstone case in a series of negotiation cases developed by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. It is recommended for participants with some negotiation experience.

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Negotiation Teaching Case Set

This set is designed to teach negotiation concepts using the local, public sector context. Each of the six cases focuses on different negotiation concepts starting with fundamental ideas, such as...

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Negotiation Teaching Case Set

This set is designed to teach negotiation concepts using the local, public sector context. Each of the six cases focuses on different negotiation concepts starting with fundamental ideas, such as...

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Negotiation Teaching Case Set

This set is designed to teach negotiation concepts using the local, public sector context. Each of the six cases focuses on different negotiation concepts starting with fundamental ideas, such as...

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Session I: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Focus on Racism, Protests, and COVID-19 Prevention

In the first session, Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provided a briefing of critical...

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Session I: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Focus on Racism, Protests, and COVID-19 Prevention

In the first session, Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provided a briefing of critical...

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Session I: Situational Briefing: A Public Health Focus on Racism, Protests, and COVID-19 Prevention

In the first session, Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provided a briefing of critical...

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Nobody's Core Business: Confronting Cross-Cutting Problems in the Public Sector

This case explores tensions between working to achieve a prescribed mission and adapting missions and organizational capacities to changing social, political, and practical realities.

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Nobody's Core Business: Confronting Cross-Cutting Problems in the Public Sector

This case explores tensions between working to achieve a prescribed mission and adapting missions and organizational capacities to changing social, political, and practical realities.

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Nobody's Core Business: Confronting Cross-Cutting Problems in the Public Sector

This case explores tensions between working to achieve a prescribed mission and adapting missions and organizational capacities to changing social, political, and practical realities.

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Adaptive Leadership
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Session 11: Situational Briefing & Leading Through a Crisis: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead

In the eleventh session, Juliette Kayyem, the Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Dutch Leonard, the George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public...

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Session 11: Situational Briefing & Leading Through a Crisis: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead

In the eleventh session, Juliette Kayyem, the Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Dutch Leonard, the George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public...

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Session 11: Situational Briefing & Leading Through a Crisis: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead

In the eleventh session, Juliette Kayyem, the Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Dutch Leonard, the George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public...

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Driving Change in São Paulo

The case navigates the strategic challenges of implementing change, particularly when introducing innovations that disrupt the status quo.

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Driving Change in São Paulo

The case navigates the strategic challenges of implementing change, particularly when introducing innovations that disrupt the status quo.

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Driving Change in São Paulo

The case navigates the strategic challenges of implementing change, particularly when introducing innovations that disrupt the status quo.

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Innovation
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Fortaleza: Keeping an Electoral Promise

The case raises questions around how to deliver on a campaign promise when your organization seems to have hit a ceiling in performance improvement.

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Fortaleza: Keeping an Electoral Promise

The case raises questions around how to deliver on a campaign promise when your organization seems to have hit a ceiling in performance improvement.

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Fortaleza: Keeping an Electoral Promise

The case raises questions around how to deliver on a campaign promise when your organization seems to have hit a ceiling in performance improvement.

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Innovation
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COVID-19 Resources

Session 10: Situational Briefing & An Uncertain Future: Scenario Planning in a Pandemic

“The success of how we respond as a nation to this outbreak is in your hands: the mayors, the city officials, the community leaders.” - Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Alle...

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Session 10: Situational Briefing & An Uncertain Future: Scenario Planning in a Pandemic

“The success of how we respond as a nation to this outbreak is in your hands: the mayors, the city officials, the community leaders.” - Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Alle...

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Session 10: Situational Briefing & An Uncertain Future: Scenario Planning in a Pandemic

“The success of how we respond as a nation to this outbreak is in your hands: the mayors, the city officials, the community leaders.” - Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Alle...

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The “Garbage Lady” Cleans Up Kampala: Turning Quick Wins Into Lasting Change

The rich details of this case can be used to support a class discussion on a policy issue, a strategic challenge, a leadership dilemma, or a combination of these areas.

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The “Garbage Lady” Cleans Up Kampala: Turning Quick Wins Into Lasting Change

The rich details of this case can be used to support a class discussion on a policy issue, a strategic challenge, a leadership dilemma, or a combination of these areas.

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The “Garbage Lady” Cleans Up Kampala: Turning Quick Wins Into Lasting Change

The rich details of this case can be used to support a class discussion on a policy issue, a strategic challenge, a leadership dilemma, or a combination of these areas.

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Innovation
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Making a Statement: Mayor Libby Schaaf and the Sanctuary City of Oakland, California

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Making a Statement: Mayor Libby Schaaf and the Sanctuary City of Oakland, California

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Making a Statement: Mayor Libby Schaaf and the Sanctuary City of Oakland, California

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Moral Leadership
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Pressing the Right Buttons: Jennifer Musisi for New City Leadership

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand or better diagnose challenges in developing state capabilities, and to introduce a framework for...

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Pressing the Right Buttons: Jennifer Musisi for New City Leadership

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand or better diagnose challenges in developing state capabilities, and to introduce a framework for...

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Pressing the Right Buttons: Jennifer Musisi for New City Leadership

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand or better diagnose challenges in developing state capabilities, and to introduce a framework for...

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Leading Change
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Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help leaders and practitioners examine the challenges of building capabilities for problem-oriented government action.

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Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help leaders and practitioners examine the challenges of building capabilities for problem-oriented government action.

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Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help leaders and practitioners examine the challenges of building capabilities for problem-oriented government action.

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Data & Evidence
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“You Have One Hundred Days”: Accelerating Government Performance in the UAE

Explores government innovation through the story of a program started by the United Arab Emirates government to spur projects toward faster, meaningful results.

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“You Have One Hundred Days”: Accelerating Government Performance in the UAE

Explores government innovation through the story of a program started by the United Arab Emirates government to spur projects toward faster, meaningful results.

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“You Have One Hundred Days”: Accelerating Government Performance in the UAE

Explores government innovation through the story of a program started by the United Arab Emirates government to spur projects toward faster, meaningful results.

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Innovation
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A Task Force With Teeth? Driving City Performance in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Illustrates work by Mayor Daniel Rivera of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and his administration, to use data in decision-making around problem properties in the city.

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A Task Force With Teeth? Driving City Performance in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Illustrates work by Mayor Daniel Rivera of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and his administration, to use data in decision-making around problem properties in the city.

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A Task Force With Teeth? Driving City Performance in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Illustrates work by Mayor Daniel Rivera of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and his administration, to use data in decision-making around problem properties in the city.

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Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville

Focuses on leading collaborative work in cities, through the lens of a Louisville group established by Mayor Greg Fischer and designed to improve educational outcomes.

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Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville

Focuses on leading collaborative work in cities, through the lens of a Louisville group established by Mayor Greg Fischer and designed to improve educational outcomes.

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Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville

Focuses on leading collaborative work in cities, through the lens of a Louisville group established by Mayor Greg Fischer and designed to improve educational outcomes.

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Design Decisions for Cross-Sector Collaboration: Mini-Case Modules

Highlight key design decisions made in the cases of five different collaborations (in Georgia, Mississippi, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Minnesota) to explore how to be effective if/when choosing...

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Design Decisions for Cross-Sector Collaboration: Mini-Case Modules

Highlight key design decisions made in the cases of five different collaborations (in Georgia, Mississippi, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Minnesota) to explore how to be effective if/when choosing...

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Design Decisions for Cross-Sector Collaboration: Mini-Case Modules

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The “Bilbao Effect”: The Collaborative Architecture that Powered Bilbao’s Urban Revival

Explores how cross-boundary collaboration mechanisms and different leadership styles enabled the city of Bilbao’s revival from a deep economic, political, and social crisis.

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The “Bilbao Effect”: The Collaborative Architecture that Powered Bilbao’s Urban Revival

Explores how cross-boundary collaboration mechanisms and different leadership styles enabled the city of Bilbao’s revival from a deep economic, political, and social crisis.

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The “Bilbao Effect”: The Collaborative Architecture that Powered Bilbao’s Urban Revival

Explores how cross-boundary collaboration mechanisms and different leadership styles enabled the city of Bilbao’s revival from a deep economic, political, and social crisis.

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COVID-19 Resources

Session 9: Situational Briefing and Leading Diverse and Dispersed Teams in Times of Crisis

You, more than most, have been on the front lines of this crisis. The American people are seeing what leadership looks like. And it’s coming from the mayors of this country.” - Vice President Biden

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Session 9: Situational Briefing and Leading Diverse and Dispersed Teams in Times of Crisis

You, more than most, have been on the front lines of this crisis. The American people are seeing what leadership looks like. And it’s coming from the mayors of this country.” - Vice President Biden

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Session 9: Situational Briefing and Leading Diverse and Dispersed Teams in Times of Crisis

You, more than most, have been on the front lines of this crisis. The American people are seeing what leadership looks like. And it’s coming from the mayors of this country.” - Vice President Biden

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Session 8: Situational Briefing & Financial Resilience: Budgeting During COVID-19

We know that the big issues are going to have to be solved at the local level.” - Jose Andres, founder of World Central Kitchen

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Session 8: Situational Briefing & Financial Resilience: Budgeting During COVID-19

We know that the big issues are going to have to be solved at the local level.” - Jose Andres, founder of World Central Kitchen

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Session 8: Situational Briefing & Financial Resilience: Budgeting During COVID-19

We know that the big issues are going to have to be solved at the local level.” - Jose Andres, founder of World Central Kitchen

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Session 7: Situational Briefing & Taking Risks Responsibly and Innovating in Real Time: Possibility Government in a Pandemic

“It is our leaders at the state and local level who are on the frontlines working in a bipartisan manner to respond effectively to this public health emergency.” - Larry Hogan, Governor of Maryland

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Session 7: Situational Briefing & Taking Risks Responsibly and Innovating in Real Time: Possibility Government in a Pandemic

“It is our leaders at the state and local level who are on the frontlines working in a bipartisan manner to respond effectively to this public health emergency.” - Larry Hogan, Governor of Maryland

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Session 7: Situational Briefing & Taking Risks Responsibly and Innovating in Real Time: Possibility Government in a Pandemic

“It is our leaders at the state and local level who are on the frontlines working in a bipartisan manner to respond effectively to this public health emergency.” - Larry Hogan, Governor of Maryland

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Session 6: Situational Briefing & Learning from History to Act Now and Prepare for the Future: Leading Through a Multi-stage Crisis

I know and really appreciate the mayors who are with us now and the work that they do – and how they are the first line of defense in meeting the needs of the constituents in their cities.”

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Session 6: Situational Briefing & Learning from History to Act Now and Prepare for the Future: Leading Through a Multi-stage Crisis

I know and really appreciate the mayors who are with us now and the work that they do – and how they are the first line of defense in meeting the needs of the constituents in their cities.”

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Session 6: Situational Briefing & Learning from History to Act Now and Prepare for the Future: Leading Through a Multi-stage Crisis

I know and really appreciate the mayors who are with us now and the work that they do – and how they are the first line of defense in meeting the needs of the constituents in their cities.”

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Session 5: Situational Briefing & Crucibles of Leadership: From Conflict to Collaboration

We owe it to the health workers and the people on the front lines to accelerate our deep understandings so that we can get back to normal.” - Bill Gates

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Session 5: Situational Briefing & Crucibles of Leadership: From Conflict to Collaboration

We owe it to the health workers and the people on the front lines to accelerate our deep understandings so that we can get back to normal.” - Bill Gates

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Session 5: Situational Briefing & Crucibles of Leadership: From Conflict to Collaboration

We owe it to the health workers and the people on the front lines to accelerate our deep understandings so that we can get back to normal.” - Bill Gates

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Session 4: Situational Briefing & Leading the Local Response to COVID-19 Addressing Stress and Mental Health

Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion. Speak it with empathy for what folks are going through. The biggest mistake any of us can make in these situations is to misinform...

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Session 4: Situational Briefing & Leading the Local Response to COVID-19 Addressing Stress and Mental Health

Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion. Speak it with empathy for what folks are going through. The biggest mistake any of us can make in these situations is to misinform...

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Session 4: Situational Briefing & Leading the Local Response to COVID-19 Addressing Stress and Mental Health

Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion. Speak it with empathy for what folks are going through. The biggest mistake any of us can make in these situations is to misinform...

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Session 3: Situational Briefing & Learning As Fast As You Can (and Creating a Basis for Hope)

When we all look back at this moment in American history, I do believe the mayors, who are on the front lines, are going to be instrumental in helping us recover.” - President George W. Bush

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Session 3: Situational Briefing & Learning As Fast As You Can (and Creating a Basis for Hope)

When we all look back at this moment in American history, I do believe the mayors, who are on the front lines, are going to be instrumental in helping us recover.” - President George W. Bush

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Session 3: Situational Briefing & Learning As Fast As You Can (and Creating a Basis for Hope)

When we all look back at this moment in American history, I do believe the mayors, who are on the front lines, are going to be instrumental in helping us recover.” - President George W. Bush

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Session 2: Situational Briefing & Crisis Communication

You, as mayors, more than anybody else, can influence people to avoid getting or transmitting COVID-19.” - President Bill Clinton

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Session 2: Situational Briefing & Crisis Communication

You, as mayors, more than anybody else, can influence people to avoid getting or transmitting COVID-19.” - President Bill Clinton

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Session 2: Situational Briefing & Crisis Communication

You, as mayors, more than anybody else, can influence people to avoid getting or transmitting COVID-19.” - President Bill Clinton

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Session 1: Crisis Leadership Essentials: Real-Time Problem-Solving Under Uncertain Conditions

In the first session, Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health provided critical public health information.

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Session 1: Crisis Leadership Essentials: Real-Time Problem-Solving Under Uncertain Conditions

In the first session, Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health provided critical public health information.

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Session 1: Crisis Leadership Essentials: Real-Time Problem-Solving Under Uncertain Conditions

In the first session, Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health provided critical public health information.

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State Capabilities for Problem-Oriented Governance

Social problems are often so large and multifaceted that various organizations and sectors need to work closely together to solve them. Governments face the challenge of effectively bringing parties...

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State Capabilities for Problem-Oriented Governance

Social problems are often so large and multifaceted that various organizations and sectors need to work closely together to solve them. Governments face the challenge of effectively bringing parties...

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State Capabilities for Problem-Oriented Governance

Social problems are often so large and multifaceted that various organizations and sectors need to work closely together to solve them. Governments face the challenge of effectively bringing parties...

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Instruments of Value: Using the Analytic Tools of Public Value Theory in Teaching and Practice

The tools of public management – such as public value and the strategic triangle – are increasingly used by scholars and practitioners alike. At the same time, some confusion remains about how to use them effectively. This article in Public Management Review analyzes these tools to help explore and structure different dimensions of public management.

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Instruments of Value: Using the Analytic Tools of Public Value Theory in Teaching and Practice

The tools of public management – such as public value and the strategic triangle – are increasingly used by scholars and practitioners alike. At the same time, some confusion remains about how to use them effectively. This article in Public Management Review analyzes these tools to help explore and structure different dimensions of public management.

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Instruments of Value: Using the Analytic Tools of Public Value Theory in Teaching and Practice

The tools of public management – such as public value and the strategic triangle – are increasingly used by scholars and practitioners alike. At the same time, some confusion remains about how to use them effectively. This article in Public Management Review analyzes these tools to help explore and structure different dimensions of public management.

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Organizing People through Storytelling: Public Narrative as a Leadership Development Practice

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Why do some words move people to action while others are quickly forgotten? A new study supported by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative proposes “public narrative” as a key form of leadership development in organizations and communities. 

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Galvis City Schools Collective Bargaining Simulation

Based on real-world public-sector labor negotiations in modern America, this three year simulation explores collective bargaining via a spectrum of coalitions including state representatives, teachers, and facilitators.

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Galvis City Schools Collective Bargaining Simulation

Based on real-world public-sector labor negotiations in modern America, this three year simulation explores collective bargaining via a spectrum of coalitions including state representatives, teachers, and facilitators.

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Mayor Curtatone’s Culture of Curiosity: Building Data Capabilities at Somerville City Hall

The overarching learning objectives of this case are designed to help participants explore and understand 1) why to use data; 2) how to use data; and 3) what to do to become—and remain—a more informed city hall.

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Mayor Curtatone’s Culture of Curiosity: Building Data Capabilities at Somerville City Hall

The overarching learning objectives of this case are designed to help participants explore and understand 1) why to use data; 2) how to use data; and 3) what to do to become—and remain—a more informed city hall.

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How Rockford Changed Course to Tackle Veterans’ Homelessness: Using Data to Diagnose and Remedy Complex Problems

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand how to build data-analytic capabilities designed to tackle tough urban problems that require a...

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How Rockford Changed Course to Tackle Veterans’ Homelessness: Using Data to Diagnose and Remedy Complex Problems

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand how to build data-analytic capabilities designed to tackle tough urban problems that require a...

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The “Bilbao Effect”: The Collaborative Architecture that Powered Bilbao’s Urban Revival

Explores how cross-boundary collaboration mechanisms and different leadership styles enabled the city of Bilbao’s revival from a deep economic, political, and social crisis.

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The “Bilbao Effect”: The Collaborative Architecture that Powered Bilbao’s Urban Revival

Explores how cross-boundary collaboration mechanisms and different leadership styles enabled the city of Bilbao’s revival from a deep economic, political, and social crisis.

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Nobody's Core Business: Confronting Cross-Cutting Problems in the Public Sector

This case explores tensions between working to achieve a prescribed mission and adapting missions and organizational capacities to changing social, political, and practical realities.

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Nobody's Core Business: Confronting Cross-Cutting Problems in the Public Sector

This case explores tensions between working to achieve a prescribed mission and adapting missions and organizational capacities to changing social, political, and practical realities.

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A Task Force With Teeth? Driving City Performance in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Illustrates work by Mayor Daniel Rivera of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and his administration, to use data in decision-making around problem properties in the city.

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A Task Force With Teeth? Driving City Performance in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Illustrates work by Mayor Daniel Rivera of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and his administration, to use data in decision-making around problem properties in the city.

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“You Have One Hundred Days”: Accelerating Government Performance in the UAE

Explores government innovation through the story of a program started by the United Arab Emirates government to spur projects toward faster, meaningful results.

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“You Have One Hundred Days”: Accelerating Government Performance in the UAE

Explores government innovation through the story of a program started by the United Arab Emirates government to spur projects toward faster, meaningful results.

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Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help leaders and practitioners examine the challenges of building capabilities for problem-oriented government action.

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Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help leaders and practitioners examine the challenges of building capabilities for problem-oriented government action.

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Pressing the Right Buttons: Jennifer Musisi for New City Leadership

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand or better diagnose challenges in developing state capabilities, and to introduce a framework for...

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Pressing the Right Buttons: Jennifer Musisi for New City Leadership

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand or better diagnose challenges in developing state capabilities, and to introduce a framework for...

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The “Garbage Lady” Cleans Up Kampala: Turning Quick Wins Into Lasting Change

The rich details of this case can be used to support a class discussion on a policy issue, a strategic challenge, a leadership dilemma, or a combination of these areas.

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The “Garbage Lady” Cleans Up Kampala: Turning Quick Wins Into Lasting Change

The rich details of this case can be used to support a class discussion on a policy issue, a strategic challenge, a leadership dilemma, or a combination of these areas.

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Negotiation Teaching Case Set

This set is designed to teach negotiation concepts using the local, public sector context. Each of the six cases focuses on different negotiation concepts starting with fundamental ideas, such as...

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Negotiation Teaching Case Set

This set is designed to teach negotiation concepts using the local, public sector context. Each of the six cases focuses on different negotiation concepts starting with fundamental ideas, such as...

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In the Green: Negotiating Rail Expansion in Somerville, Massachusetts

This case is designed as the capstone case in a series of negotiation cases developed by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. It is recommended for participants with some negotiation experience.

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In the Green: Negotiating Rail Expansion in Somerville, Massachusetts

This case is designed as the capstone case in a series of negotiation cases developed by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. It is recommended for participants with some negotiation experience.

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Beyond the Table: Infrastructure Development in Kampala, Uganda

This case focuses on how a well-organized setup and interpersonal strategies can create the necessary conditions to design better deals.

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Beyond the Table: Infrastructure Development in Kampala, Uganda

This case focuses on how a well-organized setup and interpersonal strategies can create the necessary conditions to design better deals.

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Public Value Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to help educators and practitioners understand, utilize, and share the core concepts of the public value framework.

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Public Value Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to help educators and practitioners understand, utilize, and share the core concepts of the public value framework.

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Many Ways to Get There: Securing Public Investments in Richmond, Virginia

This case focuses on how positional bargaining prevents creative deal-making when negotiators fail to understand the interests of other parties.

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Many Ways to Get There: Securing Public Investments in Richmond, Virginia

This case focuses on how positional bargaining prevents creative deal-making when negotiators fail to understand the interests of other parties.

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Leading Civic Engagement: Three Cases

These three short cases chronicle city officials leading civic engagement and public participation initiatives in pursuit of public goals. From a variety of positions in city government, the protag...

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Leading Civic Engagement: Three Cases

These three short cases chronicle city officials leading civic engagement and public participation initiatives in pursuit of public goals. From a variety of positions in city government, the protag...

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Peer-to-Peer Consultation Exercise Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to facilitate feedback and advice from peers in an open and psychologically safe environment, inviting greater clarity and focus to challenges that peers face, especially leadership challenges.

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Peer-to-Peer Consultation Exercise Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to facilitate feedback and advice from peers in an open and psychologically safe environment, inviting greater clarity and focus to challenges that peers face, especially leadership challenges.

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“A Difficult Lady”: Shutting Down Pollution In Kampala, Uganda

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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“A Difficult Lady”: Shutting Down Pollution In Kampala, Uganda

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Moral Leadership Teaching Case Set

This set of materials is designed to help leaders understand and evaluate challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions. Each of the cases focuses on a city leader forced to make a particular moral choice.

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Moral Leadership Teaching Case Set

This set of materials is designed to help leaders understand and evaluate challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions. Each of the cases focuses on a city leader forced to make a particular moral choice.

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Doing Something With Nothing: Trying to Make Kampala’s Primary Schools Safer and Healthier

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand how to mobilize resources for important priorities based on public spirit, especially when it...

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Doing Something With Nothing: Trying to Make Kampala’s Primary Schools Safer and Healthier

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand how to mobilize resources for important priorities based on public spirit, especially when it...

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Reducing Harm: Overdose Prevention in Philadelphia

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Reducing Harm: Overdose Prevention in Philadelphia

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Responding to the Opioid Crisis: Three Teaching Cases

This set of teaching cases explores the opioid crisis from different angles and perspectives in city government. The premise is that there are no “quick fixes” or technical solutions available...

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Responding to the Opioid Crisis: Three Teaching Cases

This set of teaching cases explores the opioid crisis from different angles and perspectives in city government. The premise is that there are no “quick fixes” or technical solutions available...

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Growing Pains: How a Dutch Cross-Agency Team Took on Illegal Marijuana Production in Residential Areas

The case navigates the challenges facing a new task force that needs to collaborate on defining the problem, collaborating effectively, and holding each other accountable.

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Growing Pains: How a Dutch Cross-Agency Team Took on Illegal Marijuana Production in Residential Areas

The case navigates the challenges facing a new task force that needs to collaborate on defining the problem, collaborating effectively, and holding each other accountable.

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Driving Change in São Paulo

The case navigates the strategic challenges of implementing change, particularly when introducing innovations that disrupt the status quo.

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Driving Change in São Paulo

The case navigates the strategic challenges of implementing change, particularly when introducing innovations that disrupt the status quo.

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Fortaleza: Keeping an Electoral Promise

The case raises questions around how to deliver on a campaign promise when your organization seems to have hit a ceiling in performance improvement.

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Fortaleza: Keeping an Electoral Promise

The case raises questions around how to deliver on a campaign promise when your organization seems to have hit a ceiling in performance improvement.

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Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville

Focuses on leading collaborative work in cities, through the lens of a Louisville group established by Mayor Greg Fischer and designed to improve educational outcomes.

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Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville

Focuses on leading collaborative work in cities, through the lens of a Louisville group established by Mayor Greg Fischer and designed to improve educational outcomes.

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Design Decisions for Cross-Sector Collaboration: Mini-Case Modules

Highlight key design decisions made in the cases of five different collaborations (in Georgia, Mississippi, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Minnesota) to explore how to be effective if/when choosing...

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Design Decisions for Cross-Sector Collaboration: Mini-Case Modules

Highlight key design decisions made in the cases of five different collaborations (in Georgia, Mississippi, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Minnesota) to explore how to be effective if/when choosing...

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Making a Statement: Mayor Libby Schaaf and the Sanctuary City of Oakland, California

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Making a Statement: Mayor Libby Schaaf and the Sanctuary City of Oakland, California

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Reckoning with History: Confederate Monuments in American Cities

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Reckoning with History: Confederate Monuments in American Cities

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Citizens in Cape Town wait in line for fresh water.

No Trust in Miracles: Leading Through a Water Crisis in Cape Town

This case is designed to help senior leaders in government better understand the need for adaptive leadership when dealing with crises, and the skills required for this work. In particular, the case...

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No Trust in Miracles: Leading Through a Water Crisis in Cape Town

This case is designed to help senior leaders in government better understand the need for adaptive leadership when dealing with crises, and the skills required for this work. In particular, the case...

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At the Center of the Storm: San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and the Response to Hurricane Maria

This case asks students to think about the tasks and challenges associated with mayoral leadership during a major crisis and to consider how this type of leadership differs from overseeing city gov...

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At the Center of the Storm: San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz and the Response to Hurricane Maria

This case asks students to think about the tasks and challenges associated with mayoral leadership during a major crisis and to consider how this type of leadership differs from overseeing city gov...

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Galvis City Schools Collective Bargaining Simulation

Based on real-world public-sector labor negotiations in modern America, this three year simulation explores collective bargaining via a spectrum of coalitions including state representatives, teachers, and facilitators.

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Galvis City Schools Collective Bargaining Simulation

Based on real-world public-sector labor negotiations in modern America, this three year simulation explores collective bargaining via a spectrum of coalitions including state representatives, teachers, and facilitators.

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Negotiation
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Mayor Curtatone’s Culture of Curiosity: Building Data Capabilities at Somerville City Hall

The overarching learning objectives of this case are designed to help participants explore and understand 1) why to use data; 2) how to use data; and 3) what to do to become—and remain—a more informed city hall.

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Mayor Curtatone’s Culture of Curiosity: Building Data Capabilities at Somerville City Hall

The overarching learning objectives of this case are designed to help participants explore and understand 1) why to use data; 2) how to use data; and 3) what to do to become—and remain—a more informed city hall.

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Downtown Rockford, Illinois

How Rockford Changed Course to Tackle Veterans’ Homelessness: Using Data to Diagnose and Remedy Complex Problems

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand how to build data-analytic capabilities designed to tackle tough urban problems that require a...

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How Rockford Changed Course to Tackle Veterans’ Homelessness: Using Data to Diagnose and Remedy Complex Problems

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The “Bilbao Effect”: The Collaborative Architecture that Powered Bilbao’s Urban Revival

Explores how cross-boundary collaboration mechanisms and different leadership styles enabled the city of Bilbao’s revival from a deep economic, political, and social crisis.

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The “Bilbao Effect”: The Collaborative Architecture that Powered Bilbao’s Urban Revival

Explores how cross-boundary collaboration mechanisms and different leadership styles enabled the city of Bilbao’s revival from a deep economic, political, and social crisis.

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Nobody's Core Business: Confronting Cross-Cutting Problems in the Public Sector

This case explores tensions between working to achieve a prescribed mission and adapting missions and organizational capacities to changing social, political, and practical realities.

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Nobody's Core Business: Confronting Cross-Cutting Problems in the Public Sector

This case explores tensions between working to achieve a prescribed mission and adapting missions and organizational capacities to changing social, political, and practical realities.

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Adaptive Leadership
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A Task Force With Teeth? Driving City Performance in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Illustrates work by Mayor Daniel Rivera of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and his administration, to use data in decision-making around problem properties in the city.

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A Task Force With Teeth? Driving City Performance in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Illustrates work by Mayor Daniel Rivera of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and his administration, to use data in decision-making around problem properties in the city.

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“You Have One Hundred Days”: Accelerating Government Performance in the UAE

Explores government innovation through the story of a program started by the United Arab Emirates government to spur projects toward faster, meaningful results.

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“You Have One Hundred Days”: Accelerating Government Performance in the UAE

Explores government innovation through the story of a program started by the United Arab Emirates government to spur projects toward faster, meaningful results.

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Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help leaders and practitioners examine the challenges of building capabilities for problem-oriented government action.

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Shanties in the Skyline: Addressing Unauthorized Building Works in Hong Kong

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help leaders and practitioners examine the challenges of building capabilities for problem-oriented government action.

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Pressing the Right Buttons: Jennifer Musisi for New City Leadership

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand or better diagnose challenges in developing state capabilities, and to introduce a framework for...

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Pressing the Right Buttons: Jennifer Musisi for New City Leadership

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Leading Change
Downtown Kampala, Uganda

The “Garbage Lady” Cleans Up Kampala: Turning Quick Wins Into Lasting Change

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The “Garbage Lady” Cleans Up Kampala: Turning Quick Wins Into Lasting Change

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Negotiation Teaching Case Set

This set is designed to teach negotiation concepts using the local, public sector context. Each of the six cases focuses on different negotiation concepts starting with fundamental ideas, such as...

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Negotiation Teaching Case Set

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In the Green: Negotiating Rail Expansion in Somerville, Massachusetts

This case is designed as the capstone case in a series of negotiation cases developed by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. It is recommended for participants with some negotiation experience.

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In the Green: Negotiating Rail Expansion in Somerville, Massachusetts

This case is designed as the capstone case in a series of negotiation cases developed by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. It is recommended for participants with some negotiation experience.

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The Queen City’s Collective and Compassionate Approach: Fighting Opioids and Homelessness in the Granite State

This case focuses on the varying sources of power a city leader can leverage when pursuing their policy agenda.

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The Queen City’s Collective and Compassionate Approach: Fighting Opioids and Homelessness in the Granite State

This case focuses on the varying sources of power a city leader can leverage when pursuing their policy agenda.

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Beyond the Table: Infrastructure Development in Kampala, Uganda

This case focuses on how a well-organized setup and interpersonal strategies can create the necessary conditions to design better deals.

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Beyond the Table: Infrastructure Development in Kampala, Uganda

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Public Value Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to help educators and practitioners understand, utilize, and share the core concepts of the public value framework.

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Public Value Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to help educators and practitioners understand, utilize, and share the core concepts of the public value framework.

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Many Ways to Get There: Securing Public Investments in Richmond, Virginia

This case focuses on how positional bargaining prevents creative deal-making when negotiators fail to understand the interests of other parties.

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Many Ways to Get There: Securing Public Investments in Richmond, Virginia

This case focuses on how positional bargaining prevents creative deal-making when negotiators fail to understand the interests of other parties.

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You Get What You Pay For: Reforming Procurement in Naperville, Illinois

The case focuses on negotiation concepts applied to a city context, with procurement as the scenario for analysis.

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You Get What You Pay For: Reforming Procurement in Naperville, Illinois

The case focuses on negotiation concepts applied to a city context, with procurement as the scenario for analysis.

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In the Weeds: Securing a Grass-Mowing Contract in Stockton, California

The case introduces basic concepts of negotiation within a procurement context.

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In the Weeds: Securing a Grass-Mowing Contract in Stockton, California

The case introduces basic concepts of negotiation within a procurement context.

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Leading Civic Engagement: Three Cases

These three short cases chronicle city officials leading civic engagement and public participation initiatives in pursuit of public goals. From a variety of positions in city government, the protag...

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Leading Civic Engagement: Three Cases

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Engaging Communities
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Peer-to-Peer Consultation Exercise Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to facilitate feedback and advice from peers in an open and psychologically safe environment, inviting greater clarity and focus to challenges that peers face, especially leadership challenges.

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Peer-to-Peer Consultation Exercise Tool Kit

A set of materials designed to facilitate feedback and advice from peers in an open and psychologically safe environment, inviting greater clarity and focus to challenges that peers face, especially leadership challenges.

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Leading Change
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“A Difficult Lady”: Shutting Down Pollution In Kampala, Uganda

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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“A Difficult Lady”: Shutting Down Pollution In Kampala, Uganda

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Moral Leadership Teaching Case Set

This set of materials is designed to help leaders understand and evaluate challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions. Each of the cases focuses on a city leader forced to make a particular moral choice.

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Moral Leadership Teaching Case Set

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Doing Something With Nothing: Trying to Make Kampala’s Primary Schools Safer and Healthier

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand how to mobilize resources for important priorities based on public spirit, especially when it...

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Doing Something With Nothing: Trying to Make Kampala’s Primary Schools Safer and Healthier

The overarching learning objective of this case is to help senior leaders in government understand how to mobilize resources for important priorities based on public spirit, especially when it...

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Reducing Harm: Overdose Prevention in Philadelphia

The case is designed to help mayors, city leaders, and other public executives think through adaptive leadership challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions.

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Reducing Harm: Overdose Prevention in Philadelphia

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Responding to the Opioid Crisis: Three Teaching Cases

This set of teaching cases explores the opioid crisis from different angles and perspectives in city government. The premise is that there are no “quick fixes” or technical solutions available...

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Responding to the Opioid Crisis: Three Teaching Cases

This set of teaching cases explores the opioid crisis from different angles and perspectives in city government. The premise is that there are no “quick fixes” or technical solutions available...

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Growing Pains: How a Dutch Cross-Agency Team Took on Illegal Marijuana Production in Residential Areas

The case navigates the challenges facing a new task force that needs to collaborate on defining the problem, collaborating effectively, and holding each other accountable.

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Growing Pains: How a Dutch Cross-Agency Team Took on Illegal Marijuana Production in Residential Areas

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Driving Change in São Paulo

The case navigates the strategic challenges of implementing change, particularly when introducing innovations that disrupt the status quo.

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Driving Change in São Paulo

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Doctor talks with civilian.

Fortaleza: Keeping an Electoral Promise

The case raises questions around how to deliver on a campaign promise when your organization seems to have hit a ceiling in performance improvement.

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Fortaleza: Keeping an Electoral Promise

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