Webb Family Tree - Person Sheet
Webb Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameJohn Hector McArthur 
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3100Birth31 Mar 1934, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Death20 Aug 2019, MA, USA
OccupationDean of Harvard Business School (1980-1995)
Graduation1959, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA, USA
MemoMBA
Graduation1963, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA, USA
MemoDBA
FlagsDeceased
Notes for John Hector McArthur
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 programmes while also engaging in research and course development in Europe and North America. In 1973, McArthur was appointed the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and, in 1980, the George F. Baker Professor of Business Administration. Currently he serves as Senior Advisor to the President of The World Bank.
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, McArthur earned the Bachelor of Commerce degree in Forestry from the University of British Columbia in 1957. At the Harvard Business School, he completed the MBA degree in 1959 and the doctorate in business administration in 1963.
He has held numerous corporate directorships, committee memberships, and consulting posts in business, government, education and healthcare organisations around the world over the years. He was a director of the Chase Manhattan Corporation, 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. For many years, he served as chair of the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Subsequently he was Co-chair of the Board of Trustees of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. He is currently a Director of AES Corporation, Bell Canada/BCE Inc., Cabot Corporation, Columbia/HCA Corporation, Glaxo Wellcome plc, KOC Holdings, A.S., Rohm and Haas Company and Springs Industries, Inc. He is also a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and a board member of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. McArthur also serves on the boards of overseers of several academic organisations, including Brandeis University Graduate School, Fondation Jean Monnet, Lausanne, Koc University, Istanbul, The Netherlands School of Business, Nijenrode, and the Graduate School at the University of British Columbia.
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 been awarded honorary doctorates from Middlebury College, Queens University in Ontario, Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Navarra in Spain. Other recent 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 HBS Clubs of Canada. The John and Netilia McArthur University Professorship was established at Harvard University in 1997 in recognition of their contributions at Harvard. McArthur Hall was dedicated at Harvard University in 1999.
Harvard Business School published a book about him entitled, “The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995.” Here is the book description:
The Intellectual Venture Capitalist celebrates John McArthur’s enormous contribution to the Harvard Business School, with essays from many of the school’s most renowned professors, who pay tribute to his continuing influence on their careers and the work of HBS. McArthur, a longtime academic and the dean of the Harvard Business School from 1980 to 1995, astutely invested in other people’s ideas, much like a venture capitalist. These essays examine the important fields of study at the Harvard Business School that took root and evolved under McArthur’s guiding influence, including technology, operations management, and the Global Financial Systems project. In exploring McArthur’s work with the school, the contributors reveal much about the characteristics of effective leaders and the profound influence that individuals can have over people and institutions. The Intellectual Venture Capitalist captures the essence of McArthur’s vision, foresight, and unparalleled gift for building consensus as he expanded the frontiers of intellectual thought at HBS and throughout much of business education as we know it today.
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, McArthur earned the Bachelor of Commerce degree in Forestry from the University of British Columbia in 1957. At the Harvard Business School, he completed the MBA degree in 1959 and the doctorate in business administration in 1963.
He has held numerous corporate directorships, committee memberships, and consulting posts in business, government, education and healthcare organisations around the world over the years. He was a director of the Chase Manhattan Corporation, 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. For many years, he served as chair of the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Subsequently he was Co-chair of the Board of Trustees of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. He is currently a Director of AES Corporation, Bell Canada/BCE Inc., Cabot Corporation, Columbia/HCA Corporation, Glaxo Wellcome plc, KOC Holdings, A.S., Rohm and Haas Company and Springs Industries, Inc. He is also a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and a board member of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. McArthur also serves on the boards of overseers of several academic organisations, including Brandeis University Graduate School, Fondation Jean Monnet, Lausanne, Koc University, Istanbul, The Netherlands School of Business, Nijenrode, and the Graduate School at the University of British Columbia.
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 been awarded honorary doctorates from Middlebury College, Queens University in Ontario, Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Navarra in Spain. Other recent 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 HBS Clubs of Canada. The John and Netilia McArthur University Professorship was established at Harvard University in 1997 in recognition of their contributions at Harvard. McArthur Hall was dedicated at Harvard University in 1999.
Harvard Business School published a book about him entitled, “The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995.” Here is the book description:
The Intellectual Venture Capitalist celebrates John McArthur’s enormous contribution to the Harvard Business School, with essays from many of the school’s most renowned professors, who pay tribute to his continuing influence on their careers and the work of HBS. McArthur, a longtime academic and the dean of the Harvard Business School from 1980 to 1995, astutely invested in other people’s ideas, much like a venture capitalist. These essays examine the important fields of study at the Harvard Business School that took root and evolved under McArthur’s guiding influence, including technology, operations management, and the Global Financial Systems project. In exploring McArthur’s work with the school, the contributors reveal much about the characteristics of effective leaders and the profound influence that individuals can have over people and institutions. The Intellectual Venture Capitalist captures the essence of McArthur’s vision, foresight, and unparalleled gift for building consensus as he expanded the frontiers of intellectual thought at HBS and throughout much of business education as we know it today.