Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

Equipping mayors with cutting-edge training and support

Running a city is an extraordinarily complex job. There’s no playbook for leading a city government or for managing the myriad complex problems that come with it. There are, however, lessons to learn and strategies to replicate. Unfortunately, mayors often lack access to the outside experts who can help show them the way.

Since 2017, Bloomberg Philanthropies has partnered with Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to provide mayors around the world with the resources, support, and expertise they need to help them grow as leaders and to implement proven, innovative strategies in order to solve the biggest problems their cities face. The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative includes in-person and virtual classrooms, coaching and in-city support, executive education scholarships and fellowships, and access to real-time information, the latest research, and cutting-edge strategies.

To advance urban leadership globally, the initiative makes the products of its research freely available.