Apple Likely To Do Something With Its Cash This Year (Bloomberg) Robert Kaplan, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs, believes that you will see a change at Apple with Tim Cook at the helm. The company wants to me more sensitive to governance and the majority vote is a good example of this from this past shareholders meeting. In terms of the cash, there are a lot of ways they could deal with it. Keep it simple and retain the flexibility like a regular dividend and an open market buyback.