Huron Consulting Group

What Huron Consulting Group does

Huron Consulting Group is a global professional services firm headquartered in Chicago that advises healthcare, education, financial services, life sciences, energy, and public-sector clients on strategy, operations, technology, and people challenges. The firm operates a platform-plus-services model under the Huron brand with two retained sub-brands — Innosight (strategy and innovation, anchored in Clay Christensen's disruptive innovation methodology) and Huron Transaction Advisory (a FINRA/SIPC member investment banking affiliate). As of FY2025 it served 2,100+ organizations, employed 7,230+ professionals across 26 locations in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, and reported $1.66B in revenue (Q1 2026 revenue of $443.7-$451.8M, up 11.8-12.1% YoY).

The core product portfolio centers on Huron +AI, an AI advisory, applied AI, AI governance, and adoption service that embeds generative and agentic AI into client enterprise systems. Implementation and managed services are delivered across enterprise platforms from Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and UiPath. The technology stack is augmented by healthcare-specific capabilities from the Perception Health and RelateCare acquisitions and a strategic partnership with Hippocratic AI for generative healthcare agents.

Huron's business model is professional services with project-based fees structured as time-and-materials, fixed-fee, or outcome-based arrangements, plus managed services delivered under multi-year contracts and transaction-fee revenue from Huron Transaction Advisory. Distribution is direct enterprise sales, with senior consultants and domain experts engaging C-suite executives and boards. The firm has executed a sustained M&A program — at least eight acquisitions since 2020 across healthcare data, education advisory, strategy/Innosight, financial services compliance, and AI-enabled care — alongside organic AI productization, while returning $166.2M to shareholders in 2025 against an enlarged $900M repurchase authorization.

Name

Huron Consulting Group

Legal name

Huron Consulting Group Inc.

Website

https://huronconsultinggroup.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Huron Consulting Group is a global professional services firm advising healthcare, education, financial services, and other enterprises on strategy, operations, digital, AI, and M&A engagements, serving 2,100+ organizations through 7,230+ professionals in 26 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700), Security Brokers, Dealers & Flotation Companies (6211)

akta.pro primary industry

Strategy & Corporate Development Consulting (BPAHACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships Advisory (JVs, Alliances, Carve-outs) (BPAHAOAG), Digital Workplace & Collaboration Consulting (BPAHAEAH), Change Management & Transformation Consulting (BPAHAGAC)

Keywords

• Management consulting services
• Healthcare consulting
• Higher education consulting
• Digital transformation services
• AI consulting services

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices26 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Professional Consulting Services: Huron generates revenue primarily through professional consulting engagements across healthcare, education, and commercial industries. Services include strategy and transformation, digital technology and AI, operations and performance improvement, and managed services. Revenue is project-based and fee structures include time-and-materials, fixed-fee, and outcome-based arrangements.
2. Managed Services: Huron offers managed services providing scalable operational support and expertise, generating recurring revenue through long-term service agreements.
3. Transaction Advisory: Investment banking affiliate providing M&A advisory, capital raising, and restructuring services with fees typically tied to transaction value.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Huron Consulting Group is a global professional services firm that partners with healthcare, higher education, financial services, and other enterprises to deliver strategy, operations, technology, and people-focused consulting engagements. Its offerings span AI-enabled transformation (Huron +AI), strategy and innovation (Innosight), change management, managed services, finance transformation, and transaction/M&A advisory, with deep implementation expertise across major enterprise platforms. Revenue is generated through time-and-materials, fixed-fee, and outcome-based consulting contracts delivered by a 7,230+ person global team.

Product overview

Huron Consulting Group is a global professional services firm operating a platform-plus-services model, combining deep industry expertise with integrated capabilities across strategy, operations, technology, and human capital. The core offering centers on Huron +AI, an AI-powered consulting service that embeds artificial intelligence directly into client workflows and enterprise systems. This is supported by specialized service lines including Strategy and Innovation (delivered through Innosight), Change Management, Managed Services, Finance Transformation, and Transactions/M&A Advisory (through Huron Transaction Advisory). Industry verticals span Healthcare, Education, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Energy, and Public Sector. Huron implements and integrates with major enterprise platforms including Oracle, Workday, Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks. The portfolio was recently expanded through acquisitions of Perception Health (healthcare data/predictive analytics), Whiteboard Higher Education, Advancement Resources, AXIOM Systems' payor consulting division, and Wilson Perumal & Company's Innosight business, plus partnerships with Hippocratic AI for generative healthcare agents.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Innosight: Strategy and innovation business, co-founded by Clay Christensen, focused on disruptive innovation, growth strategy, and helping organizations navigate disruption and build new growth engines
• Huron Transaction Advisory

Products and services

• Huron +AI Enterprise AI consulting service that embeds AI (generative, agentic, predictive) directly into client workflows, systems, and platforms to accelerate insight and execution. Includes AI advisory, applied AI digital solutions, AI governance, AI engineering, co-creation, and AI and data foundation establishment.
• AI, Data, and Technology Services Technology consulting offering that combines AI activation, data analytics, and enterprise platform expertise to help organizations modernize core systems, harness automation, and enable data-driven decision-making across industries.
• Strategy and Innovation Consulting Strategy consulting covering growth strategy, complexity and cost transformation, operating model redesign, innovation strategy, and portfolio strategy, delivered primarily through the Innosight sub-brand.
• Change Management and Adoption Organizational change management, adoption enablement, and people leadership services designed to ensure transformation initiatives deliver sustained results.
• Managed Services Recurring managed services providing scalable operational support and expertise, generating long-term revenue through multi-year service agreements across business functions.
• Finance Transformation and Advisory Finance consulting covering capital strategy, financial performance improvement, and modern finance function development to strengthen enterprise readiness.
• Transactions and M&A Advisory End-to-end transaction support including due diligence, buy-side and sell-side M&A advisory, balance sheet restructuring, and litigation support for clients in healthcare, education, life sciences, energy, and commercial sectors.
• Enterprise Platforms Implementation Implementation and optimization services for major enterprise platforms (Oracle, Workday, Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks) with embedded AI capabilities.
• Healthcare Consulting Clinical and operational transformation services for health systems, hospitals, academic medical centers, and healthcare payers, including care delivery optimization, revenue cycle management, and AI-enabled patient access solutions.
• Education Consulting Higher education advisory services for universities and colleges covering enrollment management, operational excellence, research administration, advancement, and digital transformation.
• Financial Services Consulting Risk management, compliance, fraud prevention, and digital transformation services for banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions, including trade surveillance, controls, and regulatory compliance.
• Innosight Strategy and innovation sub-brand offering disruption navigation, growth strategy, and complexity management, based on Clay Christensen's disruptive innovation framework.
• Huron Transaction Advisory Investment banking affiliate (FINRA/SIPC member) providing M&A advisory, capital raising, balance sheet restructuring, and financial advisory services for healthcare, education, life sciences, and energy clients.

Quantifiable outcome

• $27M ROI achieved for Tampa General Hospital through ICU optimization
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

AI capability9 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Hippocratic AIcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 January 2026On January 8, 2026, Hippocratic AI announced a collaboration with Huron Consulting Group to deploy generative AI healthcare agents supporting care navigation, discharge follow-up, chronic condition outreach, and patient engagement tasks across more than 1,000 healthcare organizations. The partnership combines Hippocratic AI's safety-focused agent platform with Huron's healthcare consulting expertise to deepen Huron's role in AI-enabled care delivery and digital operations for providers and payors. Huron stock rose 6.0% following the announcement.
• AXIOM SystemscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 November 2025Huron acquired the payor consulting services division of AXIOM Systems to expand its healthcare services portfolio. The acquired unit enhances Huron's capabilities in the healthcare payor ecosystem, including claims administration and data analytics, adding approximately 40 team members.
• EventuscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 October 2025Eventus, a provider of trade surveillance solutions, announced a collaboration with Treliant (now part of Huron Consulting Group) to enhance trade surveillance capabilities for financial institutions globally. The partnership involves leveraging Eventus' Validus platform and providing operational support to optimize surveillance programs and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Halpin PartnershipminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 March 2025Huron established an alliance with Halpin Partnership as part of a strategic move in its industry operations.
• OraclecoreTechnology or IntegrationTechnology partnership for enterprise platform implementations including ERP, CRM, and data management solutions.
• MicrosoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationMicrosoft solutions partnership providing cloud platforms, AI tools, and enterprise software implementations.
• SalesforcecoreTechnology or IntegrationCRM solutions partnership for customer relationship management implementations.
• WorkdaycoreTechnology or IntegrationWorkday partnership for human capital management and financial management solutions implementations.
• ServiceNowcoreTechnology or IntegrationServiceNow partnership for enterprise service management and workflow automation.
• AWScoreTechnology or IntegrationAWS partnership providing cloud infrastructure and advanced technology services.
• SnowflakecoreTechnology or IntegrationSnowflake partnership for data cloud and analytics capabilities.
• DatabrickscoreTechnology or IntegrationDatabricks partnership for data analytics and machine learning platforms.
• UiPathcoreTechnology or IntegrationUiPath partnership providing robotic process automation capabilities.
• InnosightcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInnosight, Huron's strategy and innovation business, was co-founded by Clay Christensen (author of The Innovator's Dilemma). Provides disruption navigation and growth strategy capabilities integrated with Huron's broader consulting services.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Accenture: Global professional services firm offering strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations services across all major industries. Directly comparable as a broad-based enterprise consulting peer with significant healthcare and digital transformation practices that overlap Huron's core offerings.
• Deloitte: Big Four professional services firm with deep healthcare, higher education, and financial services consulting practices plus transaction advisory services. Comparable to Huron in serving large enterprises across the same core verticals with both advisory and implementation services.
• McKinsey & Company: Global management consulting firm providing strategy, organization, operations, and digital transformation services to large enterprises and governments. Comparable as a strategy-led consulting peer competing for the same C-suite advisory engagements Huron targets.
• Boston Consulting Group: Global management consulting firm with strong strategy, digital transformation, healthcare, and technology practices. Comparable to Huron at the strategy end of the spectrum, particularly relevant given Innosight's roots in Christensen's disruptive innovation theory.
• Bain & Company: Global management consulting firm serving private equity, healthcare, technology, and consumer products clients. Comparable as a strategy consulting competitor for enterprise transformation work, with strong overlap in healthcare and private equity services.

Direct peers

• Slalom Consulting: Technology-focused consulting firm delivering strategy, transformation, AI, and cloud implementation services to mid-market and enterprise clients. Most directly comparable peer in business model, technology-services orientation, and mid-to-large enterprise target market.
• FTI Consulting: Global business advisory firm providing corporate finance, restructuring, forensic and litigation consulting, and strategic communications. Comparable through Huron Transaction Advisory's M&A and capital advisory services that mirror FTI's corporate finance practice.
• West Monroe Partners: Management and technology consulting firm focused on healthcare, financial services, and energy with deep digital transformation and M&A capabilities. Closely comparable peer in mid-market enterprise consulting with vertical specialization similar to Huron's healthcare and financial services practices.
• Booz Allen Hamilton: Management and technology consulting firm serving U.S. government, healthcare, and commercial clients with analytics, AI, and digital transformation services. Comparable as an enterprise consulting peer with meaningful public-sector and healthcare overlap and similar technical implementation depth.
• Navigant Consulting (now Guidehouse): Management consulting firm serving energy, healthcare, financial services, and public sector clients with strategy, digital, and operational improvement services. Comparable peer with significant overlap in healthcare consulting, energy advisory, and public-sector transformation engagements.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/5751
• Xx.com/huron
• Facebookfacebook.com/HuronConsulting

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Subsidiaries9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A25 records

Investments

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