The Advisory Board Company Fund Company Profile

Description

The Advisory Board Company provides best practices research and insight, performance technology software, consulting and management, and data-and tech-enabled services in the United States and internationally. Its best practices research and insight programs include published studies, executive education, proprietary databases and online services, access to experts, executive briefings, and other services. The company’s best practices research and insight programs are focused on understanding industry dynamics, identifying best-demonstrated management practices, critically evaluating widely-followed but ineffective practices, and analyzing emerging trends within the health care and education industries. It also offers cloud-based business intelligence and software applications that allow members to combine insights derived from best practices research with their operational and financial data to identify and assess revenue, cost-saving, or performance improvement opportunities; and consulting and management services that provide on-the-ground support for turnaround and performance improvement initiatives, as well as best practice and day-in-day-out professional management of the hospital or medical group areas. In addition, the company provides data- and tech-enabled services that optimize hospital and health system supply chain, as well as strategic, data-driven student engagement and enrollment management, financial aid optimization, and alumni fundraising solutions to the education industry. It offers its services through discrete programs to hospitals, health systems, independent medical groups, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, health care insurers, medical device companies, colleges, universities, and other health care-focused organizations and educational institutions. The Advisory Board Company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.