One thing Peter Blair Henry, Stern School of Business's new dean, admits he'll have trouble in adapting to in his move from California to Manhattan, is the weather.
But then, as the Jamaican-born academic puts it: “Everywhere outside of the 18th parallel is cold to me.” Yet if Prof Henry's roots as an “immigrant kid from Jamaica” cause him to feel the cold, they have also shaped his outlook – one that is resolutely international.
“Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy,” says Prof Henry, who took up his post at New York University's Stern in January.