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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

By 2002, the firm had grown to a base of 2,100 memberships and had 500 employees. The firm also started growing rapidly through M&A, acquiring Crimson, an analytics, data, and business intelligence software provider focused on analytics related to physician performance, healthcare practice quality and cost management in 2008.

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Industries with a higher share of IT workers saw more concentration between 2002 and 2007, even after controlling for M&A activity and several other variables.