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Blackstone Inc. companies. This category is for portfolio companies of the private equity investment firm Blackstone Inc. Portfolio companies are those companies that are currently or have been previously owned or controlled by the private equity firm or its affiliate funds. Ownership should be material (i.e. full control, majority ownership or ...
Blue, white. Website. www.pennfoster.edu. Penn Foster College is a private, for-profit online college headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. [1] It was founded in 1890 as International Correspondence Schools [2][3] and presently offers bachelor's and associate degree programs in 22 certified programs, as well as academic certificates. [1][4]
In 2007, the Wicks Group, a private equity firm, bought the school from Thomson Corporation. In 2009, Penn Foster was resold to test preparation and educational support company The Princeton Review. In 2012, the Princeton Review brand name and operations were bought for $33 million by Charlesbank Capital Partners, a private-equity firm.
In 1992, Gray joined Blackstone's mergers and acquisitions and private equity group, [6] and joined its newly formed real estate private equity group the following year. He became co-head of the real estate group in 2005 and global head of real estate in 2011, [7] overseeing a portfolio of hotel, office, retail, industrial, and residential properties in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
Blackstone was founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman with US$400,000 (equivalent to $1.1 million in 2023) in seed capital. [3]: 45–56 [4] The founders derived their firm's name from their names: "Schwarz" is German for "black"; "Peter", "Petros", or "Petra" (Πέτρος and πετρα, the masculine and feminine rendering of the word, respectively) means "stone" or ...
Ashworth College – online, based in Norcross, Georgia. Aspen University – online, based in Denver, Colorado. California InterContinental University – online, based in Diamond Bar, California. California Southern University – online; not to be confused with The University of Southern California.
The Blackstone Legal Fellowship is an American legal training and summer internship program for Christian law students, developed and facilitated by the Evangelical Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). About 3,000 law students have participated in the program. [1] Its main campus is in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Blackstone’s "Alternatives” video is easily the firm’s most successful and most viral holiday outing, Jonathan Gray, Blackstone’s president and COO told Fortune. "This thing has had more ...