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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

“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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the Weeds: Securing a Grass-Mowing Contract in Stockton, California
The case introduces basic concepts of negotiation within a procurement context.

In the Weeds: Securing a Grass-Mowing Contract in Stockton, California
The case introduces basic concepts of negotiation within a procurement context.

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...

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...

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.

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.

“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.

“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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

Driving Change in São Paulo
The case navigates the strategic challenges of implementing change, particularly when introducing innovations that disrupt the status quo.

Driving Change in São Paulo
The case navigates the strategic challenges of implementing change, particularly when introducing innovations that disrupt the status quo.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...