James I. Cash

Dr. Cash is the James E. Robison Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, where he first joined the faculty in 1976, became the first tenured African-American in 1985, and retired in 2003. He taught in all the major HBS programs, and served as Chairman of Baker Library, Chairman of the MBA program and Chairman of the Harvard Business School Publishing Company at various times during his tenure at the school. Dr. Cash participates on several public, private and not-for-profit boards, including Chubb Ltd., The Boston Celtics, Grain Management and The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. In the past he has served on the Boards of Walmart, General Electric, Microsoft, Sprint, Scientific Atlanta, State Street Corp, Alcon Labs, Knight Ridder, Tandy, Partners Healthcare, Mass General Hospital, The Gardner Museum, The National Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation and the Boston Museum of Science. On a five-year rotating basis, he serves as a Director for early-stage enterprise technology companies. To facilitate the identification of these companies he serves as an Advisor to General Catalyst Partners. Dr. Cash holds a BS in Mathematics from TCU, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University’s Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information Systems (MIS) and Accounting from Purdue University’s Krannert Graduate School of Management.