James I Cash, Jr, Ph.D., 58, is the retired James E Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University Business School, where he served from July 1976 to October 2003. Dr Cash also served as chairman of the MBA program and the senior associate dean and chairman of HBS Publishing while at the Harvard. He serves as a director of The Chubb Corporation, General Electric Company, Phase Forward Inc, and Microsoft Corporation.
"Paul and José are rotating off as part of our normal governance guidelines relating to the service of our outside directors," Walton said. "John chose not to stand for re-election in order to focus his attention on his duties as lead director of Delphi."
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