The lawmaker’s call for an SEC investigation into the school highlights the industry’s fishy valuation practices.

Harvard University’s endowment is in advanced talks to sell about $1 billion of private equity fund stakes, at a time when the school faces financial uncertainty compounded by pressure from ...

Harvard had 39% of its funds into private equity assets in 2024, according to the annual Harvard financial report. This is up from 34% in 2021, when the university also sold close to $1 billion of ...

A new study from Harvard Medical School is raising fresh concerns about hospitals controlled by private equity firms. Researchers found patient satisfaction dropped at hospitals that moved under ...

The American Investment Council has picked Will Dunham to replace outgoing leader Drew Maloney atop the private equity trade ...

Private equity is becoming less and less “private.” Public scrutiny and negative publicity is now a feature of daily life for much of the industry. In 2012, Colin Blaydon of the Tuck School of ...

These are tough times for university endowments -- there's the difficulty of producing consistent results; the questionable love of investments in hedge funds and private equity amid high fees and ...

Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund exec, calls for Penny Pritzker, Harvard Corp’s board chair, to resign Harvard had ‘no choice’ on Gay’s resignation amid plagiarism claims say ...

Private equity's ability to outperform publicly-listed stock is well documented. But it's the lack of downside risk that makes PE really special. Private equity is safer than the stock market in a ...

If private equity can get that kind of performance out of a company, why can’t they? A version of this article appeared in the November 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Harvard’s endowment had been late to the private equity asset class, but ramped it up in recent years. The fund’s 10-year annualized return was 7.6%. The most recent fiscal year featured a 9.6 ...