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Jim is a special advisor to General Catalyst Partners and its portfolio companies.
Dr. Cash recently retired (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 1985 he became the first tenured African •American HBS Professor. In addition to heading several executive education programs, 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 different times during his time at the school.
In 1965 he became the first African-American to sign an athletic letter-of-intent in the Southwest Conference at Texas Christian University to play basketball. He received Conference and Academic All-American honors before graduating with a BS in Mathematics. Later he received 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.
Dr. Cash participates on a number of public, private and not-for-profit boards, including General Electric, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Chubb, Phase Forward, The Boston Celtics, and the National Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation.
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