Bruce Katz | April 15, 2011 3:50pm

Metro Business Plans to Jumpstart Regional Economies

In the face of serious fiscal stress, U.S. cities and metropolitan areas face major economic challenges that demand innovative solutions. Metropolitan business planning—which adapts the discipline of private-sector business planning to the task of sharpening regional strategy setting—seeks to address these issues and offer pragmatic and catalytic solutions in a time of austerity.

At an event to introduce the metropolitan business planning concept, Bruce Katz explains how the discipline of private-sector business plans can be adapted to the task of revitalizing and restructuring metropolitan economies.

Bruce Katz

Vice President and Director

Metropolitan Policy Program, Global Cities Initiative

Bruce J. Katz is a vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program which aims to provide decision makers in the public, corporate and civic sectors with policy ideas for improving the health and prosperity of cities and metropolitans areas. Katz is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School.

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