Where are Abt Associates' offices in the United States?
We have four offices in the United States located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Bethesda, Maryland, Durham, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. See contact us for details. In addition Abt SRBI has offices in New York City, Chicago, Illinois, and Hadley, Massachusetts.
Abt Associates is one of the largest for-profit government and business research and consulting firms in the world. We apply rigorous research and consulting techniques to a wide range of issues in social and economic policy, international development, and business research and consulting.
We help governments worldwide implement efficient programs, and provide technical assistance to facilitate policy reforms in countries moving from command economies to market-oriented economies. We have extensive experience in advising countries on economic development. Working with the U.S. Agency for International Development, our experts in agriculture, health, the environment, and trade have helped governments improve service delivery and implement sustainable market-based reforms.
We have applied our experience and problem-solving skills to wide-ranging social challenges in developing nations, including improving agricultural production in underfed nations, promoting AIDS treatment programs in Africa, and advancing childhood immunization in Asia; in Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian Republics, we have taken a primary role in restructuring healthcare delivery and financing.
In the United States, our work for the Environmental Protection Agency contributes to improved policies and regulations to reduce harmful pollutants. We also conduct highly sophisticated surveys and in the private sector, we frequently undertake complex data-driven analyses that result in improved competitive positions for our client companies.
Over the years, Abt Associates has helped to shape some of the most important and complex public programs carried out in the United States, including Medicaid, welfare, Head Start, crime reporting, and housing experiments. Other notable projects have included implementing a $150 million urban redevelopment project in Memphis, Tennessee, and creating a database that reduces the risk of lead poisoning from older housing.
How can I find an Abt Associates case study or report?
See our work, where you can search through an extensive selection of Abt Associates work, including articles, case studies, newsletters, presentations, and reports.
Does Abt Associates serve clients outside the United States?
Abt Associates is truly a global company with 4 corporate offices in the United States and over 40 project sites in more than 35 countries. We are committed to maintaining and developing our international services and supporting a diverse client base in Africa, Asia, East Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
We work in a wide range of areas including agriculture, behavioral health, child and family services, community innitiatives, international economic development, education, environment, health policy, health systems strengthening, health services delivery, homeland security, homelessness, housing policy and programs, national and community service, product development and pricing, public health and epidemiology, science and technology, substance abuse, survey research, welfare, and workforce development.
We specialize in cost-benefit analysis, economic analysis, epidemiology, evaluation, health economics and outcomes research, information technology, market research, new product development, performance measurement, policy analysis, program monitoring, statistical analysis, survey research, technical assistance, and training.
Our clients are worldwide — governments at all levels, international organizations, foundations, nonprofit associations and institutions, and business and industry.
The company bears the last name of its founder, Clark Abt. The full company name — Abt Associates Inc. — can be abbreviated to Abt Associates, but "Abt," "ABT," "AAI," and other abbreviations are incorrect.
Our gross revenue was approximately $264 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, with approximately one third of our revenues reflecting our international activities.
From modest but ambitious beginnings more than 45 years ago, Abt Associates has emerged as one of the largest for-profit government and business research and consulting firms in the world. In 2008, Abt Associates was ranked 20th among the top 50 U.S. market research firms by the American Marketing Association. The company is also one of the 100 largest employee-owned companies in the United States.
Clark Abt established the company in January 1965 in a small office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mission was to address societal problems through the application of social science research to public policy. The firm's purpose also was to examine the issues confronting businesses as they faced increasingly complex, international, and technology-intensive markets. Abt Associates has remained close to its founder's original vision of a company that makes an important difference in the lives of people and nations.
Kathleen Flanagan was appointed president and chief executive in 2009. She has responsibility for all research and consulting, marketing, and financial operations, as well as for the strategic direction of the company. Ms. Flanagan joined Abt Associates in 1983 as a policy analyst and since then has worked on a broad range of policy and program issues.
Abt Associates has an ethnically diverse staff of more than 1,500 employee-owners, including national and international experts recognized for their knowledge and innovative research techniques.
We are an employee-owned, type S corporation, and are included on the National Center for Employee Ownership list of the 100 largest U.S. companies in which a majority of the stock is owned by an employee ownership plan (http://www.nceo.org/library/eo100.html).
