Jean-Jacques Degroof supports innovation and entrepreneurialism in his native Belgium through a combination of private research, academic instruction and lectures, and investment in startups and growing enterprises. After earning his PhD from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jean-Jacques Degroof spent a year as a fellow at the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, known as the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government since 2005.

2.  Jean-Jacques Degroof supports innovation
and entrepreneurialism in his native Belgium
through a combination of private research,
academic instruction and lectures, and
investment in startups and growing enterprises.
After earning his PhD from the Sloan School of
Management at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Jean-Jacques Degroof spent a
year as a fellow at the Center for Business and
Government at Harvard University’s John F.
Kennedy School of Government, known as the
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business &
Government since 2005.

3.  Established to provide a focal point where
national leaders and others—both from inside
and outside government—could participate in
substantial discussions of national policy, the
Center for Business and Government
celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2012. During
its first three decades, it established several
programs consistent with its mission of bringing
together national leaders from all sectors.
Some of those programs have completed their
work, including the Asia Programs, the Health
Care Delivery Policy Program, the Program on
Technology and Economic Policy, and the
Ethiopia Decentralization Support Activity.

4.  Ongoing programs include the Corporate
Social Responsibility Initiative, several
energy policy programs, the Harvard
Environmental Economics Program, the
Sustainability Science Program, and the
Regulatory Policy Program. Other program
areas include education policy, the
financial sector, climate agreements,
international trade and negotiations, and
collaborative governance. In addition, the
Kansai Keizai Doyukai Program is oriented
around issues related to Japan and the
Pacific Rim.