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James I. Cash, Jr., Ph.D.

James I. Cash, Jr. is a widely acclaimed expert on Information Technology management. Retired from Harvard Business School, where he had been a faculty member since 1976, Professor Cash has focused his research on the strategic use of Information Technology in the service sector and, specifically, the development of a performance measurement system for large Information Technology organizations. His articles have been published in Accounting and Information Technology journals and the Harvard Business Review.

Professor Cash's nonacademic activities include serving on the Board of Directors of several public and private companies as well as a trustee or overseer for several nonprofit organizations. Most notably, he has served on the Board of Directors of General Electric Company since 1997 and Microsoft since 2001. In addition, he has worked with many companies and governments around the world in both consulting and teaching assignments. Professor Cash also leads the Cash Concours, an IT management seminar for Fortune 100 CIOs, in association with the Concours Group.

While at Harvard, Professor Cash was the James E. Robinson Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean and Chairman of HBS Publishing. During his tenure, he taught in all the major HBS programs: MBA, Program for Management Development (PMD), Program for Global Leadership (PGL), and Advanced Management Program (AMP). Among his administrative assignments, he served as Chairman of the MBA program during the school's project to redesign the program.

Before his graduate education and joining the Harvard Faculty, Professor Cash worked as Director of Data Processing for several years, which followed jobs as a systems analyst, systems programmer, and application programmer.

Professor Cash received a BS in mathematics from Texas Christian University; an MS in Computer Science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a PhD in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management