70-491 Private Equity
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course serves as an introduction to private equity, including its development as an industry, key participants, organizational structure, and common contract terms. The course will address how private equity investors create value, including financial, governance, and operational engineering, in addition to common exit strategies for investments. The course will also describe the leveraged buyout model for evaluating potential investment targets. This course may use third-party course material that is not available for individual purchase from the publisher. If so, the third-party course material will be secured and provided by the Tepper School to students enrolled in the course, and students enrolled in the course will be required to pay to the University the associated additional course materials fee for the third-party course material provided. The amount of the course materials fee is dependent on the University's cost of the particular materials provided, and typically ranges from $13 to $75.
Prerequisites: 70-391
Offered: Fall 2025
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