Professor Roman Weil, talking to Matt Peterson, dismissed the notion that a student who invests time and money into an MBA will continue to work hard regardless of the disclosure policy. The data refute that argument. Students won't work hard out of altruism. If you reduce the incentives to hard work, some students will work less hard. Theory suggests this.
Data support it.
As a result, students will learn less and faculty will enjoy teaching less. No more discussion here. At some point an equilibrium will set in such that we gauge the success of this experiment. There are probably opportunities to make stylistic changes that could lessen any negative impacts from the new student policy. Dean Huizenga noted that with the downtown classes as a control variable, the school can gather data over the next few quarters to take an informed position on the policy, if there's even any reason to.