Dr. Cash recently retired in October 2003 as the James E. Robison Professor and senior associate dean of the Harvard Business School, where he first joined the faculty in 1976. In addition to heading several executive education programs, he taught in all the major HBS programs, and served as chairman of the MBA program and chairman of the Harvard Business School Publishing Company.

Cash, one of the nation’s foremost experts on management of the information technology function, primarily focuses on the strategic use of information technology in the service sector. He has worked with many companies and governments around the world in both consulting and teaching assignments. He runs The Cash Concours, an invitation-only program for chief information officers of leading companies designed to promote peer-to-peer exchange and learning, and provide exposure to leading thinkers from business, government and academia. In addition, he has created a program for leadership development of senior managers in the information technology function.

Cash currently serves on the boards of The Chubb Corporation, General Electric, Microsoft, Phase Forward and Scientific Atlanta. He previously served on the boards of Alcon Labs, Affiliated Publications, Cambridge Technology Partners, Knight-Ridder, State Street Corporation, Tandy Corporation (renamed Radio Shack), United Telecommunications (renamed Sprint Corporation) and Winstar Communications. He is a limited partner in the LLC that owns the Boston Celtics, and serves on its board of directors. He serves as a trustee for several non-profit organizations, including Babson College, Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton Wellesley Hospital, and Partners Healthcare. He also serves on the boards of two private emerging companies.

Among his publications are Harvard Business Review articles “IS Redraws Competitive Boundaries” and “Information Technology and Tomorrow’s Manager,” and numerous articles in accounting and information technology journals. During 2005 he had a series of articles in CIO Magazine. His books include: Building the Information-Age Organization: Structure, Control, and Information Technology with Eccles, Nohria and Nolan (Irwin), Corporate Information Systems Management: Issues Facing Senior Managers and Corporate Information Systems Management: Text and Cases with McFarlan and McKenney (Irwin), and Global Electronic Wholesale Banking with Mookerjee (Graham & Trotman).

Cash earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Texas Christian, his master’s degree in computer science from Purdue, and his doctorate in management information systems (MIS) from Purdue.

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