In his Leadership Fellows position with the Detroit's Office of the Mayor, Nikhil Patel (MBA 2019) has seen firsthand the impact of COVID-19 on city initatives and priorities. Throughout it all, building community trust through effective communication and leadership have been crucial. [...]
When Apoorva Pasricha (MBA 2019) assumed her role with the City of San Jose’s Mayor’s Office of Technology & Innovation as an HBS Leadership Fellow in August 2019, her mandate was to implement San Jose’s ‘Smart City’ road map. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, and suddenly Pasricha and her colleagues had to reorganize their functional priorities. [...]
