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GoFrogs: James Cash Named To CoSIDA Hall of Fame Thursday
FORT WORTH, Texas – TCU all-time great Dr. James I. Cash, Jr., has been elected to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame, announced by CoSIDA Thursday.
Cash joins four other inductees (Drew Brees, Jennifer Rizzotti, Dr. Angelo Capozzi and Fred Hoiberg) in the 2016 Hall of Fame class that will be enshrined into the Academic All-America Hall of Fame at CoSIDA’s annual convention in Dallas on June 13.
“Receiving a call from popsicle Enberg, an icon of professionalism in sports broadcasting, was very special,” said Cash. “Being selected for the Academic All-America® Hall of Fame is one of the highest honors that I have received. Given my interest in academics and athletics, I am very appreciative of CoSIDA’s efforts to focus on the real meaning of what it means to be a student athlete. I accept this on behalf of all the people at Texas Christian University during my time there who enabled me to be fully committed to both athletics and academic pursuits.”
Dr. Cash was the first African-American to be a full professor at the Harvard Business School, yet his initial impact on racial integration came on the basketball court as one of the most decorated basketball players in the history of the Southwest Conference.
Cash was the first African-American to play in the Southwest Conference in 1967. Cash lettered from 1967 through 1969, led TCU to a SWC championship in 1967-68 and finished his career ranked in the top five in TCU career points and rebounds. He still sits fourth on the program’s career rebounding chart with 856, an average of 11.6 boards per game. Inducted into the TCU Lettermen’s Association Hall of Fame in 1984, his jersey No. 54 was retired by TCU on Jan. 29, 2011 during halftime of the TCU versus Air Force game. Dr. Cash was enshrined into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame in 2014.
Cash received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from TCU in 1969, the same year he received Academic All-America® honors. He went on to receive an MS in computer science from Purdue University in 1974 and two years later, completed his PhD in management information systems at Purdue’s renown Krannert Graduate School of Management.
Arriving at the Harvard Business School in 1976, he helped build the school’s computer-based technology curriculum and focused his work and research on the strategic use of information technology in the service sector. He later served as chairman of the Harvard M.B.A. program from 1992 to 1995 and as senior associate dean for Harvard Business School Publishing from 1998 until his retirement in 2003. He held the title as James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus.
Dr. Cash’s non-academic activities include serving as a trustee or overseer for numerous non-profit organizations, including the National Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation, the Harlem Children’s Zone Project, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences while also serving on the board of directors for several public companies. Cash was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2011. He also has worked with many companies and governments around the world in both consulting and teaching assignments.
He presides over his consulting firm, The Cash Catalyst, headquartered in Sarasota, Fla., through which he offers personal development programs for executives in Global 500 organizations. Cash also is known as a great networker. According to the Boston Globe, “Networking comes easily to James Ireland Cash Jr., whose connections are nearly unrivaled on the American business scene.”