HARVARD UNIVERSITY

ADVANCED LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE

Chair and Director April 29, 2010

Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Harvard Business School
RE: Harvard ALI Health Care Reform Think Tank
Co-Chairs
Barry R. Bloom Greetings:
Harvard School of Public
Health
I write to invite you to participate in the Harvard University Advanced
David Gergen
Harvard Kennedy School
Leadership Initiative Think Tank on “Health Care Reform” that will take
place May 6-8, 2010 at Harvard University. The Advanced Leadership
Rakesh Khurana
Harvard Business School
program is designed to prepare experienced leaders to transition from their
previous work in the private and public sectors to take on new challenges in
Charles J. Ogletree
Harvard Law School
the social sector where they potentially can make a significant societal impact.
The program seeks to enhance and leverage the skills of already-accomplished
Fernando M. Reimers
Harvard Graduate School
leaders for maximum impact on significant social problems, including those
of Education that affect health and welfare, children, and the environment.
Peter Brown Zimmerman
Harvard Kennedy School The Think Tank – our name for an innovative solution-finding workshop – is
a centerpiece of the Advanced Leadership Initiative, founded in 2009 by
Executive Committee Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter of the Harvard Business School. It serves to
Donald Berwick
Harvard Medical School
enable experienced leaders to fill leadership gaps to support institutions that
Harvard School of Public promote health, education, welfare and the environment. Along with faculty
Health
from five professional schools at Harvard, I serve as a co-chair of this
David Bloom program.
Harvard School of Public
Health
With the recent passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act,
William W. George
Harvard Business School
the Think Tank on “Health Care Reform” comes at a critical time in our
country and globally, as the technological opportunities for improved health,
Allen S. Grossman
Harvard Business School
the demand for better and more equitable services, and the ever escalating
costs of health, threaten the economic and social stability of nations around
James P. Honan
Harvard Graduate School
the world. We are bringing together an extraordinary group of experts in the
of Education field, and our hope is to generate a lively discussion among panelists and the
Robert H. Mnookin
ALI Fellows. We believe that by considering the challenges of health
Harvard Law School policies and services in the context of both industrialized and developing
Nitin Nohria
countries we may better be able to find new ways of achieving the goals of
Harvard Business School health security, health care quality and health equity for people everywhere.
Forest Reinhardt
Harvard Business School I enclose a preliminary agenda for this Think Tank on “Health Care Reform.
The success of the meeting will largely depend on the quality of the
Managing Director discussion. We know you have a great deal to contribute to this discussion
Miriam S. May
and would greatly value your participation in this meeting.

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Space is limited, so we ask that you please RSVP at your earliest convenience to
Lindsey Porter (Lindsey_porter@harvard.edu). I very much hope you will be
able to join us to make this a rewarding and constructive meeting.

Sincerely,

Barry R. Bloom

You can read more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative and our outstanding 2010 fellows
at: http://www.advancedleadership.harvard.edu/