The James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration
Chairman, MBA Program
Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration
Education
Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics
Texas Christian University
Master of Science in Computer Science
Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical
Sciences
Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information Systems
(MIS)
Purdue University's Graduate School of Management
Academic Employment
Dr. Cash has been a member of the executive education programs -
program for
Management Development (PAD) and Advanced Management Program
(AMP).
He has served as faculty chairman and/or instructor in several
short executive education programs including, Managing the
Information
Services Resource, and Managing Business Transformation.
His current assignment, Chairman of the MBA Program, began in
1992. He was
a participant in the school's project to redesign the MBA Program
- MBA: Leadership and Learning.
Non-Academic Activities
Professor Cash's non-academic
activities include:
Trustee Positions
Mass General Hospital
Texas Christian University
Massachusetts Computer Software Council
Board of Directors
Cambridge Technology Partners
Knight-Ridder, Inc.
State Street Bank and Trust
Tandy Corporation
Previous Board Positions
Affiliated Publications
Sprint Corporation
Overseer
The Gardner Museum
Boston Museum of Science
Other Professional Involvement
Dr. Cash has worked with many
companies and governments around the world in both consulting
and teaching assignments. Before his graduate education and
joining
the Harvard Faculty, he worked as Director of Data Processing
for several years, which followed jobs as a systems analyst,
systems
programmer, and applications programmer. His research focuses
on the role of information systems technology in large
corporations
where the function and technology are of strategic importance
to the firm. He is currently involved in projects exploring how
companies are attempting to use information technology to improve
organizational effectiveness, and in the associated business
transformation
process.
Publications
Among Dr. Cash's publications are articles in accounting and
computer journals, including:
A regular column in
"Information
Week,"
Two Harvard Business Review articles: "IS
Redraws
Competitive Boundaries" (March-April 1985)
"Information
Technology and Tomorrow's Manager" (November-December 1988)
Books Include:
Building the Information-Age Organization;
Structure,
Control, and Information Technologies with Eccles, Nohria and
Nolan (Irwin)
Business Decision Making with Lotus 1-2-3 (McGraw
Hill)
Corporate Information Systems Management: Issues Facing
Senior Managers and Corporate Information Systems Management:
Text and Cases with McFarland and McKenney (Irwin)
Global
Electronic
Wholesale Banking with Mookerjee (Graham & Trotman)
An instructional videotape, "Competing Through Information
Technology"
with Warren McFarlan (Nathan/Tyler)
Internships
