"People are going to warm to [Cash] and bewilling to join with him," the professor added,citing Cash's custom of "thanking people" and"sharing limelight."

Fundraising is an activity which many facultymembers listed as one of Dean of the BusinessSchool John H. McArthur's greatest strengths.

"[McArthur has] certainly increas[ed] thefinancial strength of the school," said LittleProfessor of Business Administration Charles J.Christenson.

Since McArthur became dean in 1980, annualgifts to the Business School have gone up from $8million to $30 million, and the market value ofinvestments has skyrocketed from $106 million to$600 million, according to a Business School factsheet.

The next dean will also have the responsibilityof managing the Business School's budget.

"[There are] huge investments to be made overthe next decade, and it's easy to not spend moneywisely," said Dickinson Professor of AccountingRobert S. Kaplan.

Excellence in Teaching

Like his administrative career, Cash's teachingcareer started with a bang and kept on going.

When Cash first came to teach at the BusinessSchool in 1976, he had never taught a course usingthe case method, McKenney said.

And since most Business School courses use casestudies, Cash was somewhat worried on his firstday of teaching, McKenney said.

"McFarlan and I took him into the classroom,and in the beginning he was a little nervous,"McKenney said.

But a few minutes into the class, Cash wasfine.

"He really got into it and came alive,"McKenney said.

Cash's ability to adapt to a new teaching stylewas "amazing," McKenney said.

"He probably got up to [the case method] asfast as anyone I've ever seen, and I've been herea long time," McKenney said. "In his second year,he was emerging as what was going to be a futuregreat teacher."