Advisory Board Co (NASDAQ:ABCO)

The Advisory Board Co. provides research and analysis, business intelligence and software tools, management and advisory services to the health care and education industries. The company offers programs in three key areas: best practices research, business intelligence and software tools, and management and advisory services. Its best practices research memberships serve as the foundation of intellectual property across all programs. The company's business intelligence and software tools programs leverage the intellectual capital, allowing members to pair their own operational data with the best practices insights from its research through web based business intelligence and software tools. Its management and advisory services programs assist member institutions efforts to adopt and implement best practices to improve their own performance. The Advisory Board was founded by David G. Bradley in 1979 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.