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- January 2015 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
New Urban Mechanics
By: Mitchell Weiss
Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to scale Citizens Connect across the... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Civic Technology; Government Innovation; Civic Innovation; Cities; New Urban Mechanics; Thomas. M. Menino; Chris Osgood; Nigel Jacob; Connected Bits; SeeClickFix; Ben Berkowitz; Eric Carlson; Dave Mitchell; Government Technology; Open Innovation; Open Source Software; Citizens Connect; Commonwealth Connect; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation and Management; Open Source Distribution; Public Administration Industry; Information Technology Industry; Boston
Weiss, Mitchell. "New Urban Mechanics." Harvard Business School Case 315-075, January 2015. (Revised March 2017.)
New Urban Mechanics
Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to scale Citizens Connect... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
executing it." In the HBS case study More Citizens Connect, Weiss details some of the learning challenges involved with Citizens Connect, the 311 app produced for Boston. After the successful rollout in that city, project creators View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
From left: Chris Osgood, Dan Koh, Lauren Lockwood It is 2:30 p.m. on the day before Thanksgiving, and the halls of Boston City Hall are eerily quiet. Dan Koh (MBA 2011), Chris View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- News
Dan Koh Named Labor Department’s Chief of Staff
vote by the Senate has not been scheduled yet, but his nomination was recently advanced by a bipartisan committee vote and is expected to pass. Editor's note: In more news from Boston City Hall, soon-to-be-acting mayor Kim Janey has named chief of streets View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- News
Boston Mayor Appoints ‘Chief of Streets’ to Oversee Transportation, Public Works
Keywords: Government
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
Boston City Hall Vet Named New Chief of Staff
- 01 Feb 2016
- News
Building a Better Boston
Video Embed Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
co-creators of Citizens Connect, Chris Osgood and Nigel Jacob, a chance to grow their vision for citizen-engaged governance and civic innovation, but it also requires that the two City of Boston leaders sit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2014
- News