Why are college sports and private equity converging? Here are the best-case scenarios

Private equity cash infusions into college sports come with plenty of much-discussed criticism and skepticism. So what's the case for it?
Santa Clara University

Prompt Privacy: An AI Ethics Case Study

Every day, millions of people input prompts (whether questions or instructions) into AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, DALL-E, or Meta AI. Recently, media coverage highlighted what seemed ...
The Denver Post

East Colfax neighborhood chosen for Colorado’s first environmental equity study

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The East Colfax neighborhood in Aurora will be the first community in Colorado to receive a state-sponsored grant to study how pollution, extreme heat and ...
Medical Xpress

Private equity acquired more than 500 autism centers over the past decade, new study shows

Private equity firms have acquired more than 500 autism therapy centers across the U.S. over the past decade, with nearly 80% of those acquisitions occurring over a four-year span, according to a new ...
MedPage Today

Autism Therapy Becomes Big Business for Private Equity

Private equity firms acquired over 500 autism therapy centers in 42 states from 2015 to 2024. Nearly 80% of these acquisitions happened between 2018 and 2022, coinciding with rising autism prevalence ...
Business Insider

Wall Street's most stressful hiring ritual may be about to restart

PE firms seem to be gearing up to start the on-cycle recruiting practice in January. Firms paused the recruiting dash for jobs two years away after Jamie Dimon issued a sort of moratorium. One ...
The New York Times

Once Wall Street’s High Flyer, Private Equity Loses Its Luster

As funds deliver mediocre returns and shed investors, the industry is struggling to unload 31,000 investments, an increase over this time last year. By Maureen Farrell Heading into 2025, private ...
Sports Illustrated

Utah approves groundbreaking private equity deal raising $500 million for athletics

Private equity in college athletics had only been a concept explored by a few schools and major conferences. On Tuesday, the University of Utah helped pave the way for more institutions to look into ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Private Equity Must Sell More Assets — at Whatever Price

The rebirth of private equity dealmaking has been supposedly just around the corner for well over a year. But even as investment bankers cheer a rush of mergers & acquisitions and the reopening of the ...
Center for American Progress

5 Consequences of Private Equity’s Expansion in Health Care Services

Over the past two decades, private equity firms have aggressively acquired health systems, hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes, and other health care facilities. This has reshaped the health ...
McKnight's Senior Living

Private equity investments ‘shaping the healthcare ecosystem,’ report says

Private equity investors have a growing influence in the healthcare industry, investing more than $1 trillion during the past decade, mostly in skilled nursing facilities, hospitals and specialty ...