Peter Blair Henry

Excerpt: "A new day another barrier is broken. The Stern School of Business at New York University, one of the premier business schools in the nation, has turned to an economics professor at Sanford University, who is also black, as its new dean. Peter Blair Henry, a Jamaica-born Rhodes Scholar, moves to NYU in January 2010 from Stanford, where he's currently holding the post of Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Economics. He'll be NYU's first black business school dean." Read Full Story

Peter Blair Henry will be heading up NYU's business school starting next year. Peter Blair Henry is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He has been named as the new dean of NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He'll start at the beginning of 2010. From an a press release put out by NYU: NYU President John Sexton and Provost David McLaughlin today named Peter Blair Henry – the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Economics at Stanford University – as dean of NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He will assume the deanship effective January 15, 2010. A Rhodes Scholar; ... Read Full Story