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Tuesday, June 10

Lunchtime Teaching Case Workshop

An event of the Bloomberg Center for Cities

Tuesday, June 10
12:00–1:30 p.m.
Bloomberg Center for Cities, Taubman Third Floor, Harvard Kennedy School

About the Event

For enrolled Harvard graduate students and Bloomberg Center for Cities Summer Associates and staff

Help the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative workshop its newest teaching case, taught by Professor Jorrit de Jong. Details are below.

Lunch will be provided prior to the workshop at 11:45 a.m.

We ask all participants to prepare for the case discussion by reading the materials. Further workshop details and case materials will be provided once registration has closed.

Space is limited for this in-person event. Registration will close when full or by Wednesday, June 4 at noon.

Case: A City That Cares: Cross-Agency Innovation to Support Caregivers in Bogotá

Case description: Bogotá Mayor Claudia López and Secretary of Women’s Affairs Diana Rodríguez brought an ambitious idea to life: “Manzanas del Cuidado” (“Care Blocks”), a groundbreaking initiative to enrich the lives of caregivers (mainly women) whose valuable work is unpaid and often unrecognized. The case looks at the political promise that sparked the effort, the partnerships and problem-solving to build it, and the added pressure of a global pandemic. By the end of summer 2022—about two thirds of the way through López’s term—Bogotá had opened ten Care Blocks, provided over 160,000 services, trained nearly 7,000 people in cultural change workshops, and set the stage for the care system’s continued growth. However, questions remained. Was the initiative shifting caregiving dynamics at home? Were health and economic outcomes for caregivers measurably improving? And could early gains translate into enduring cultural change?

Speakers

Jorrit de Jong

Jorrit de Jong

Director, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University

Jorrit de Jong is director of the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University and the Emma Bloomberg Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School. His research, teaching, and engagement with practice focus on the challenges of making the public sector more effective, efficient, equitable, and responsive to social needs.

His scholarly research has been published in academic journals such as Public Administration Review, Cities, Public Management Review, Administration & Society, Stanford Social Innovation Review, International Journal of Public Administration, and the Journal of Public Health Management and Policy. A specialist in experiential learning, Jorrit has taught strategic management and public problem-solving in degree courses and executive education programs at Harvard and around the world.

Since 2016, Jorrit has been director and faculty co-chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, a joint program of Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, funded by and executed in collaboration with Bloomberg Philanthropies. Over 300 mayors and their senior teams have participated in this year-long program designed to help cities tackle pressing problems.

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