Tag: Michael Bloomberg

  • Nation & World

    Two mayors talk pandemic, civic unrest, and the value of a network of peers

    The Gazette recently spoke to Kathy Sheehan, mayor of Albany, N.Y., and Randall Woodfin, mayor of Birmingham, Ala., and asked them to share how their experience at Harvard as part of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative prepared them to face the toughest year of their careers.

    14 minutes
    Mayor Woodfin and a citizen.
  • Nation & World

    Obama: In trying times, truth first

    During a virtual seminar Thursday, more than 750 officials from 400 U.S. cities got advice from top executives who led the nation’s last public health crisis, the Ebola epidemic, on how to help their cities cope and prepare for reopening in the coming weeks or months.

    6 minutes
    Barack Obama
  • Nation & World

    Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announces third class of mayors

    The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative announced the third class of 41 mayors from around the world who will participate in a yearlong education and professional development program.

    3 minutes
    Group photo of participants
  • Nation & World

    Bloomberg extols ‘moral leadership’ at Business School

    Former New York City mayor and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg invokes integrity in the service of country and capitalism during Class Day at Harvard’s 368th Commencement.

    4 minutes
    Michael R. Bloomberg speaks at Class Day at Harvard Business School
  • Nation & World

    Street battle

    Former New York City transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, speaking at the Graduate School of Design, describes successful pedestrian-friendly efforts and offers advice to those seeking change.

    4 minutes
    Janette Sadik-Khan speaks at Gund Hall.
  • Nation & World

    Mayoral initiative heads for year two

    The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, which is housed at the Ash Center, is a collaboration among Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Now entering its second year, the program helps mayors govern more creatively and effectively.

    5 minutes
    The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative mayors program.
  • Nation & World

    A boost for managing cities

    A $32 million gift from Michael Bloomberg’s charitable foundation will support a new four-year collaboration with Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School to help hundreds of city mayors and their top staff members make government more responsive and effective for its citizens.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Disrupting city hall

    Harvard Kennedy School and Law School experts say city life will be transformed by city governments that are plugged into technology.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘There’s no easy time to say hard things’

    Delivering Harvard’s Commencement address, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called on the Class of 2014 to safeguard free speech and inquiry, rights that he said are under attack both in Washington, D.C., and on college campuses across the country.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Snapshots of a sun-splashed day

    A roundup of capsule stories and photos surrounding Harvard’s 363rd Commencement.

    18 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The danger of us against them

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and former congressman Joe Scarborough, now the host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” identified big problems with the U.S. political system and traded ideas on how to address them during a discussion at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

    4 minutes