# In a podcast interview, Professor and Dean Emeritus Peter Henry discusses the responsibility of companies to tackle racial injustice

1 Faculty News June 16, 2020 ![The Economist logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025662.jpg?itok=1_MW1PTy)>

Excerpt from [The Economist](https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/06/16/what-can-american-companies-do-to-tackle-racial-injustice) -- "'There's now a large body of overwhelming evidence, much of which was pioneered by my late colleague Kathy Phillips who was a professor at Columbia University, that shows that diverse teams out-perfrom non-diverse teams in just about every way you can think of. And so the first point that I have tried to make in all that I do is that we're talking about excellence. There are equity issues, equity reasons for promoting diversity, but to me, the leading reason to push for more diversity is we want more excellence."

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