Dr. Massy is an emeritus professor at Stanford University, and most recently served as president of The Jackson Hole Higher Education Group, Inc., (which he founded). He earned tenure as Professor of Business Administration, then moved to Stanford’s central administration as Vice Provost for Research and later Vice President for Business and Finance. In 1987 he became a professor of higher education and founded the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research where he worked on education quality, resource allocation, finance, and mathematical modeling of universities. From 1996 to 2002 Dr. Massy directed the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement’s project on educational quality and productivity. From 1991 to 2003 he served on Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee.

His book with David Hopkins,Planning Models for Colleges and Universities, received the Operations Research Society of America’s Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for 1981, and in 1995 he received the Society for College and University Planning’s annual career award for outstanding contributions to college and university planning. More recent books are Resource Allocation in Higher Education (with collaborators, Michigan, 1996), Honoring the Trust: Quality and Cost Containment in Higher Education (Anker 2003), Remaking the American University: Market-Smart and Mission-Centered (with R. Zemsky and G. Wegner, Rutgers 2005), and Academic Quality Work: A Handbook for Improvement (with S. Graham and P. M. Short, Anker, 2007).

Education: Dr. Massy holds a Ph.D. in economics and MS in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS from Yale University.