When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education

This paper studies the role of private equity in for-profit higher education.

Private equity and formerly private equity owned schools account for approximately 35 percent of total US for-profit enrollment, which in turn totals more than 2.5 million students per year. Relative to closely-held private firms or diffusely-held publicly traded…

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Synthetic Peer Benchmarking for Diversified Private Equity Programs

At BlackRock Private Equity Partners we believe that continued innovation of our tools and analytics is imperative in achieving superior risk-adjusted returns and delivering a distinguished and more transparent experience to our investors.     

As a private equity solution provider, most of our investors are invested in a collection or…

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Venture Capital Investments and Merger and Acquisition Activity around the World

In this paper, we investigate what happens to venture capital investments when M&A activity is regulated.  The paper studies the interaction between venture capital (VC) activity and M&A activity in 40 different countries around the world.  
 
The initial idea for this paper came from an interesting story…

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