The Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth.
The CMBOR collects data on European Private Equity and provides research analysis on-demand.
The Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst (HMTF) Center for Private Equity Finance at The University of Texas at Austin.
Steve Kaplan has written much of the fundamental literature on LBOs. He keeps recent papers on his research page.
Josh Lerner at Harvard keeps an excellent page on Venture Capital.
The NBER paper collection is also available at the ESSEC library.
The Center for Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Finance at Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State Univ.
The Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance at Michigan Ross School of Business
The Golder Center for Private Equity College of Business at Ilinois
The Thunderbird Global Private Equity Center
The Coller Institute of Private Equity at London Business School
The Frankfurt Institute for Private Equity and M&A at Frankfurt School for Finance and Management
The Oxford Private Equity Institute at Saïd Business School Oxford
The Columbia Private Equity Programm at University of Columbia
The Cass Private Equity Center (CPEC) at Cass Business School London
The Private Equity and Venture Capital Programm at Harvard Business School
The Entrepreneurship and Private Equity Program at Cornell University
The Garber Venture Capital Center, Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FCFE), at Pennsylvania State Univ.
The China Venture Capital Research Institute Hung Hom Hong Kong
The MSc Finance and Private Equity Programme at London School of Economics