The Advisory Board Company provides best practices research and analysis, business intelligence and software tools, and management and advisory services to the health care and education industries in the United States and internationally. The company’s best practices research programs include access to studies, executive education, proprietary databases and online services, executive briefings, and other services. Its best practices research memberships serve as the foundation of intellectual property across various programs and are focused on identifying best-demonstrated management practices, critiquing widely-followed but ineffective practices, and analyzing emerging trends within the health care and education industries. The company’s software tools allow members to increase revenue, reduce cost, and improve quality by pairing the operational data with the practices insights from research; and management and advisory services offer strategic and operational support to member institutions in order to achieve key clinical quality and financial performance goals, as well as assist member institutions’ efforts to adopt and implement best practices. It offers services through discrete programs to approximately 4,100 organizations, including hospitals, health systems, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, health care insurers, medical device companies, colleges, universities, and other health care focused and educational institutions. The Advisory Board Company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

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