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| Dr. James Cash Jr. |
The Harvard University Business School is renaming one of its campus buildings in honor of Dr. James Cash Jr., who is a Fort Worth and TCU legend.
The building being renamed has been known as the "Glass House," in honor of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Carter Glass. The building will become known as "Cash House."
Cash, who was born in Fort Worth, was the Harvard Business School's first Black tenured professor.
Cash graduated from I.M. Terrell High School, where he starred in basketball. Receiving nearly 100 college scholarship offers, Cash became the first Black basketball scholarship player in the Southwest Conference (SWC) when he signed with TCU in 1965.
Cash lettered from 1967 through 1969 and led TCU to the 1967-68 SWC basketball championship and a victory over Kansas State, 77-72, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Cash had an outstanding basketball career at TCU. He is one of 32 players in school history to surpass 1,000 career points (1,026). In his career, he averaged 13.6 points per game while shooting 45.2 percent from the field. He’s in the top five in TCU career points and rebounds leaders.
Cash, who was an Academic All-American in his last two years with the Horned Frogs, had his No. 54 jersey retired in 2011 and he has been inducted into the TCU Lettermen’s Association Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the SWC Hall of Fame in 2014.
Cash earned a bachelor’s degree in math from TCU. He went on to earn a master’s degree and a doctorate from Purdue University, before becoming the first African-American full professor at the Harvard Business School, where he helped build the school’s computer-based technology curriculum. He served in various posts at Harvard over 27 years, including teaching in the MBA program and executive education, until his retirement in 2003.
Cash has served on several board of directors including Wal-Mart, General Electric and the Chubb Corporation. He also served on the boards of Knight Ridder, Microsoft, Alcon Labs and Radio Shack. In addition, he is an accomplished author.
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