Bert King Award for Service to the Community
James I. Cash, Jr.
James Ireland Cash, Jr., is the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, a senior associate dean, and Chairman of HBS Publishing.
Cash received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Texas Christian University; 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) from Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management. He joined the Harvard Business School Faculty in 1976, and has 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 has served as Chairman of the MBA Program from 1992 to 1995 during the Schools' project to redesign the MBA Program—"MBA: Leadership and Learning," and is currently Chairman of HBS Publishing.
Cash's non-academic activities include serving as a trustee or overseer for nonprofit organizations, and on the board of directors for several public companies. He 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 a director of data processing for several years, which followed jobs as a systems analyst, systems programmer, and application programmer.
His research focuses 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.
Among his publications are articles in accounting and information technology journals, two Harvard Business Review articles, "IS Redraws Competitive Boundaries" (March-April 1985), and "Information Technology and Tomorrow's Manager" (November-December 1988), several books: Building the Information-Age Organization: Structure, Control and Information Technology 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 McFarlan and McKenney (Irwin), Global Electronic Wholesale Banking with Mookerjee (Graham & Trotman), and an instructional videotape, Competing Through Information Technology with Warren McFarlan (Nathan/Tyler).
Professional Achievement Award
Raymond McGuire
Raymond McGuire is a managing director in Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions group based in New York. He has executed a broad range of domestic and international financial advisory transactions including takeover defense, merger restructuring, acquisition, and divestiture mandates. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, McGuire was a managing director in the mergers and acquisitions group of Merrill Lynch & Co. Prior to Merrill Lynch, McGuire was one of the original members of Wasserstein, Perella & Co., where he became a partner/managing director in 1991. He started his career in 1984 in the mergers and acquisitions group of The First Boston Corporation.
He received his MBA and JD from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, respectively (1984), and an AB, cum laude (1979), from Harvard College. He also attended the University of Nice, France, while on a Rotary Fellowship (1980). He had legal experience at the law firms of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler.
Presently, McGuire holds positions on several boards of directors including: the De LaSalle Academy, Chairman; The International Center of Photography, President; New York-Presbyterian Hospital; the Studio Museum in Harlem, Chairman; the Whitney Museum of American Art, Executive Committee; The Enterprise Foundation; The Joseph & Claire Flom Foundation; the Howard Gilman Foundation, and is a former member of the Hotchkiss School.
He has served on various committees at Harvard University and is currently a member of the Overseers/Directors Nominating Committee.