# The Report Card with Nat Malkus: What Harvard’s New Grade Inflation Policy Gets Wrong (with Scott Duke Kominers)

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Podcast: [The Ricochet Superfeed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ricochet-superfeed-446950)
Published: 2026-06-04T01:06:42+00:00
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Duration seconds: 4730

## Resource

Recently, Harvard faculty voted to push back on grade inflation at the institution by capping the proportion of A’s given to students at 20%. But according to a new paper, Harvard’s new policy—and grade caps in general—are not the right solution. In What Does a Grade Mean? Informativeness and Strategic Manipulation of Grading Systems, Scott […]

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