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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities
“Running a city is one of the most complex jobs on the planet. A mayor is responsible for overseeing unwieldy bureaucracies, managing budgets, making policy, implementing programs, bringing legislators together, harnessing technology,... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- News
Dan Koh Named Labor Department’s Chief of Staff
Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, who has been nominated by President Biden to serve as secretary of labor, has tapped Dan Koh (MBA 2011) to serve as his chief of staff, according to the Boston Globe.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
If you had asked Calvin Young (MBA 2015) what he’d be doing after his graduation from HBS, he wouldn’t have answered “politics.” But earlier this month, the mechanical engineer and newly minted MBA announced his candidacy for mayor of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
located in a Greek Revival plantation home. He now serves as mayor of Marietta, a job he describes as both rewarding and frustrating. His reason for running? “Payback. It’s a trite but true answer. This town has been good to me.” My... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Karaoke Anyone?
easy-to-use touch-screen interface. Limelight has become a popular destination, hosting everything from kids’ birthday parties to bachelorettes and corporate events. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino hosted his annual holiday party there. Now... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
Koh’s fifth floor office, cooking up a communications strategy ahead of the looming Boston winter. “We want to avoid what happened last year,” warns Koh, Chief of Staff to Mayor Marty Walsh. Last winter, the Hub’s snowiest on record, left... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
conference "Investing in Cities of the 21st Century" delved into once-distant challenges that have suddenly arrived on the planet's collective doorstep. "The cities of the 21st century are being built right now in the developing world," said David Miller, former View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
waterfront. An elevated six-lane highway cuts through the heart of it all. Below the traffic, the narrow and often unpaved streets are crowded with makeshift brick and corrugated tin buildings, home to some 43,000 people. “Most porteños have never even been there,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
When economist Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (MBA 1993) was elected mayor of Argentina’s capital in 2015, he promised to address conditions in the city’s slums, which house about a quarter million of the city’s 3 million people. A recent... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
do—how well cities are run will affect the future of the planet in profound ways.” Within the next four years, as many as 300 mayors and 400 top mayoral aides will participate in the initiative’s executive... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
services, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Duties Included: taking care of Yankee and Shea stadiums Description of Her Employees: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, blacksmiths; 111 men, 9 women; average age: 45 Enjoys: international cooking, theater, baseball... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
becoming candidates. This is not a call for privatization of services (like trash pickup), which is already widespread. Instead, it’s a suggestion that the job of mayor itself be awarded by voters to a private firm. Unlike other... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
lives, careers, and volunteer activities embody the finest examples of public service and the Jeffersonian ideal of citizen involvement. Among this year’s other recipients was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66). Before... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Fighting Back from a Knockout
Politics can be a thankless game — to the victor go the spoils, but so too the headaches. Consider the case of Steve Laffey (MBA 1986), the newly elected Republican mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island. Last November, three days after winning... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
Could Kurt Summers Jr. Be Chicago’s Next Mayor?
Summers as a potential 2019 challenger to current mayor Rahm Emanuel or a contender for the Illinois governorship. Summers, who aspired from a young age to be an investment banker and worked at Goldman Sachs before joining the public... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Eyeing the Dominoes?
parties, one politician who some experts believe could make a strong run as a centrist alternative is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66), according to the Associated Press (December 20, 2006). Bloomberg’s strengths are that... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading the way in times of crisis
After an unsuccessful run for mayor of New York in 2013, Lhota is now chief of staff at New York University Langone Medical Center, where he works closely with the CEO assisting in managing all activities associated with directing a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
instead of waiting until disaster strikes? “San José’s CIO Shireen Santosham (MBA 2008) and Mayor Sam Liccardo immediately supported the idea,” says Tsai, which led to the October 2018 launch of Host Corps. This public/private initiative... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
City Hall’s Headbanger
Above: photo by Minesh Bacrania As mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tim Keller (MBA 2005) is focused on bread-and-butter initiatives that drive down crime and attract business. And he’s been successful on both counts since taking office... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna