Born: 1934

John H. McArthur was Dean of the Faculty, Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, from 1980 through 1995.  He was a member of the Harvard Business School faculty from 1962, where he taught courses in corporate finance and related fields in several School programs while also engaging in research and course development in Europe and North America. 

He is currently a director of The AES Corporation; The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (Chairman); Bell Canada; Bell Canada Enterprises; e-Rewards; Koç Holdings, A.S., Istanbul; and Telesat Canada.  He has been a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the US Friends of the National Arts Centre of Canada and is a board member of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.  McArthur has also served or serves on the boards of several other overseas organizations.

He has held numerous corporate directorships, committee memberships, and consulting posts in business, government, education and health care organizations around the world over the decades.  He has been a director of, amongst others, Arvida Corporation; BCE Emergis, Inc.; Buckeye Pipe Line Company; Cabot Corporation; Chase Manhattan Corporation; GlaxoSmithKline plc; HCA Inc.; National Aviation and Technology Corporation; The Pennsylvania Corporation; Rohm and Haas Company; Teradyne Inc.; Springs Industries, Inc.; and Urban National Corporation.  McArthur was a Trustee in Bankruptcy of Penn Central Transportation Company, a founding board member of the Canada Development Investment Corporation, and a member of the Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Financial Services Sector.  He has served in numerous roles over the years for the Mayor of the City of Boston.  He was founding Co-chair of the Board of Trustees of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. 

He has received Distinguished Alumni awards from Burnaby South High School, the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at UBC, and from the University of British Columbia.  He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from Middlebury College, Queens University, Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Navarra in Spain.   Other awards have included a Management Achievement Award, McGill University; Harvard Statesman Award, from the HBS Club in New York; and a Canadian Business Leadership Award, from the combined HBS Clubs of Canada. 

The John and Netilia McArthur University Professorship was established at Harvard University in 1997.  McArthur Hall was dedicated at Harvard Business School in 1999 in recognition of his contributions at Harvard University.  

Appointed a Reuters Trustee in 2001.