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Resources to equip current and future global leaders to improve the lives of city residents.
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Organizing People Through Storytelling: Public Narrative as a Leadership Development Practice

News: Mike Bloomberg Joined Faculty, Students, and Staff to Celebrate the Bloomberg Center for Cities

The “Formality Effect”: New Study Finds Formal Government Communications Can Be More Effective
We catalyze impact in cities, where more than half of the world’s people live
Data-Smart City Solutions
Q&A: Mike Bloomberg Talks with Stephen Goldsmith About Cities and Innovation

Bloomberg Center for Cities
These Students and Graduates Are Helping Solve Pressing Problems at the Local Level

Global impact
The program helped us sharpen our skills, learn new ideas, and prepare us to lead our cities into the future.Mayor Tishaura O. Jones
St. Louis, Missouri

The instructors challenge you to grow. The other mayors become your friends. I’m better at my job because of it and my city is the beneficiary.Mayor Todd Gloria
San Diego, California

Thanks to the knowledge and support the Bloomberg Center for Cities has provided, our municipal care system is now a reality.Mayor Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas
Monterrey, Mexico

Here at the Center
Multidisciplinary research, innovative labs and fellowships, illuminating classroom experiences, global convenings, and more.

Pioneering Research
We pursue multidisciplinary research to generate practical knowledge, tools, and ideas in response to real-world challenges.
Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
Organizing People Through Storytelling: Public Narrative as a Leadership Development Practice
Academy of Management Learning & Education
The People Lab
Does Reducing Stigma Increase the Take-Up of Rental Assistance?
HKS Working Paper No. RWP22-022

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