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Women in Business
LEADING QUESTIONS: Gleaners chief gets wake-up call
August 11, 2010
Mason King
CEO Pamela Altmeyer reevaluated her priorities
and decided to step down after a family tragedy and the agency's latest capital campaign.
JPMorgan's wealth advisory group led from Indianapolis
August 7, 2010
Peter SchnitzlerElizabeth Schlueter started out in Fort Wayne and rose through a series of promotions that landed her not on Wall
Street but in Indianapolis.
MoreINSIDE DISH: Kelties eyes return to salad days
August 6, 2010
Mason King
Owner and chef Keltie Domina is relying on cost-cutting, an uptick in sales and her talent for shifting strategies
to dig out of a recession-based deficit.
LEADING QUESTIONS: Burd Ford flies after tragedy
July 29, 2010
Mason King
Richard Burd's suicide led to shrewd cost-cutting at the family
auto dealership. For Christine Burd, returning to profitability is both heartening and heartbreaking.
LEADING QUESTIONS Not-for-profit prez: 'Take a breath'
July 14, 2010
Mason King
Keira Amstutz of the Indiana Humanities Council has counterintuitive advice for fundraising pitches, plus counsel on
finding balance and avoiding overthinking.
Contract pharmaceutical research firm expands to New Jersey
July 10, 2010
J.K. WallConcentrics grows in spite of recession as drug companies look for help to handle patent expirations
MoreWomen leading local food movement
July 10, 2010
Marc D. AllanWomen are leading the movement toward healthful, organic food grown close to home. Farmer's markets, CSAs, food co-ops are
sign of growing trend.
MoreINSIDE DISH: Tulip Noir owner learns as she goes
July 9, 2010
Mason King
Dina Romay-Sipe, a designer turned novice restaurateur, cooked up Tulip Noir from scratch. Good advice along the way:
Stick to your budget, pay your bills, and get it in writing.
Health care reform bringing changes to Caregivers
July 3, 2010
Scott OlsonCaregivers anticipates coping with declining Medicare reimbursements while having to offer insurance to its employees.
MoreVeteran attorneys Pence and Hensel leave Taft to launch own firm
June 5, 2010
Scott OlsonLinda Pence and David Hensel will concentrate on complex civil and business disputes, as well as white-collar criminal defense
work.
MoreIn-car spy device could drive sales
May 29, 2010
Chris O'MalleyCarmel-based CarCheckup LLC has created a cell-phone-size device that plugs into a car's "OBD II" diagnostic port to track
a plethora of data, such as speed ranges, graphs of RPM, and numbers on how hard the car accelerated and braked. The company
is marketing the device to parents of teen drivers, among others.
MoreLEADING QUESTIONS: Small-biz tips from finance whiz
May 26, 2010
Mason King
Jean Wojtowicz, whose firm has helped fund more than 1,200 Indiana companies, recommends the "front-page test,"
looking seriously at expanding, and pulling the trigger quickly on toxic employees.
LEADING QUESTIONS: Lead-foot Skillman takes tactful route
May 12, 2010
Mason King
Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman left behind the hot-rod racing of her youth
for the hallowed halls of the Statehouse. Polite persuasion is her secret weapon.
Coffee sales give Christel House a boost
May 8, 2010
J.K. WallIndianapolis-based Christel House is brokering sales of in-room coffee to resorts around the country, taking a 10-percent
royalty to do so. The coffee is roasted by Indianapolis-based Copper Moon Coffee Co. and packaged in red and green bags decorated
with drawings by students at Christel House's schools.
MoreWomen's Fund sets $20 million goal for endowment
April 10, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Women's Fund of Central Indiana recently completed an endowment drive that raised $7 million, making the endowment one
of the largest of its kind in terms of assets.
MoreAthletic entrepreneur helps clients build camaraderie, improve leadership
April 10, 2010
Tawn ParentDeseri Garcia's Vida Aventura consulting firm uses challenge courses, other unusual techniques to improve teamwork, morale.
MoreINSIDE DISH: Harried chef at R bistro tries to keep it fresh
April 9, 2010
Mason King
In IBJ's new video feature on front-burner business issues that vex restaurants, Regina Mehallick
of downtown's R bistro mulls the financial and personal demands of running a chef-owned eatery with a menu that changes
every week.
Low-profile CIB leader embraces tough financial task
March 6, 2010
Scott Olson
Ann
Lathrop's interactions with the Indiana Pacers and Indianapolis Colts aren't what she might have envisioned as a young
college student pursuing a career in sports medicine. Now president of the city's Capital Improvement Board, her relations
with the teams are tied to their financial conditions rather than the health of their players.
Program offers women entrepreneurs their own experts
January 9, 2010
Tawn ParentAthenaPowerLink selects Carmel firm Mitsch Design as the first woman-owned business it will assist locally.
MoreHiring family, friends can be dicey for business owners
January 9, 2010
Marc D. AllanEmploying relatives or pals can be a godsend or a nightmare for small firms. And anecdotal evidence suggests it could be even
rougher on women business owners than it is on men.
MoreAdversity prepared health exec for new role at helm of SynCare
January 9, 2010
J.K. WallStephanie DeKemper believes everything in her adult life has prepared her to run SynCare LLC. She’s so
sure that she’s buying the company.
MoreGreenfield chain makes gas stations a family affair
December 12, 2009
Marc D. AllanIn high-turnover industry of gas stations and convenience stores, Greenfield-based GasAmerica builds loyalty under the guidance
of CEO Stephanie White-Longworth.
MoreNew Community Hospital East president pursues care for all
October 10, 2009
Jo Ellen Meyers SharpThe new president of Community Hospital East says her job is all about health—the health of not just patients, but
the entire neighborhood.
MoreMUELLER: Women, Wall Street and financial crises
September 12, 2009
Shirley M. MuellerAlthough women now make up 60 percent of the work force, they occupy only 20 percent of executive positions. There are even
fewer in finance, especially the high-risk areas like hedge funds. This may be one important reason we are in our
economic chaos.
MoreOrr fellows finding opportunity in male-dominated tech industry
August 10, 2009
Jo Ellen Meyers SharpMany young women who have participated in the Governor Bob Orr Indiana Entrepreneurial Fellowship program have landed at high-flying
local technology firms.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.