John H. McArthur has been a member of Koç Holding Board of Directors since 1999. He was the Dean of Harvard Business School from 1980-1995. The John and Netilia McArthur University Professorship was established at Harvard University in 1997. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of The AES Corporation; Senior Advisor to the President of The World Bank; Chairman of the Canada Asia Pacific Foundation; member of the Board of Trustees of Reuters Founders Share Company Limited.
He has served on the Boards of BCE Inc., Cabot Corporation, Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, Glaxo Wellcome plc, Rohm and Haas Company, Springs Industries, Inc. and The Vincam Group, Inc.
He has been a director of Chase Manhattan Corporation, a Trustee in Bankruptcy of Penn Central Transportation Company and 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. Later he was founding Co-chair of the Board of Trustees of Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
He has 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.