WSJ: LBO 101

Professor Colin Blaydon via The Wall Street Journal about increased interest from students in private equity and hedge funds classes.

This past spring, as many as half of the 240-person student body at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, in Hanover, N.H., signed up for a class on private equity, eager to learn how these deals are crafted. Just 20% or so of students wanted in on the class when it got started in the late 1990s, says Colin Blaydon, director of the school's Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship. Coming this fall in Prof. Blaydon's course, responding to a torrent of interest from students: a special class on hedge funds.

Source: The Wall Street Journal by Diya Gullapalli July 29, 2006