for profit

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Oregon’s Jeff Merkley is probing Partners Group and American Securities for financial records of for-profit child-care companies they control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Such hospice providers are not owned by private-equity firms or for-profit entities.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

One non-Apollo investment was a $34 million stake in a for-profit education company co-founded by Michael Milken, whom Black previously worked with at the now-defunct investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

At the same time, Edison and the state’s two other big for-profit electric companies are lobbying state officials for even more protection from the cost of future fires to reassure their investors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

There’s no record of Hopkins and Gey accepting money for HeLa cells, but many for-profit cell banks and biotech companies have.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot