The Advisory Board Company provides best practices research and analysis to more than 2,300 hospitals, health systems, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, healthcare insurers and medical device companies in the United States, focusing on business strategy, operations and general management issues. Best practices research identifies, analyzes and describes specific management initiatives, strategies and processes that produce the best results in solving common problems or challenges. For a fixed-annual fee, members of each program have access to an integrated set of services, such as best practices research studies, executive education seminars, customized research briefs and Web-based access to the program's content database and decision support tools.