With a history of landing foreign investment, Indiana plans its first Global Economic Summit
The Indiana Global Economic Summit will take over the Indiana Convention Center and other downtown sites May 26-29.
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Homeowners keep spending on renovations, upgrades
Homeowners locally and nationwide, far from being deterred by supply-chain snarls, are showing increasing interest in remodeling.
Nature Conservancy finds new way to protect bat habitat from wind farms
Generating electricity using gigantic wind turbines is a massive win for green energy. But the huge blades are deadly for migrating Indiana bats and northern long-eared bats.
Many pandemic college trends will stick around
During the pandemic, online learning options have exploded at Indiana colleges, as have the numbers of non-traditional students. And most experts agree the revolution is just getting started, with more new takes on the college experience to come.
Millennials, Gen Z put pets first in search for housing
Providing pet accommodations has become a top priority for apartment complexes seeking younger tenants, and new-home construction is also seeing an uptick in pet-friendly perks.
10 tips to sell your house during cold weather
The market has tilted severely toward sellers. But if you want to get the best price and the quickest deal, there are still a lot of things you need to do to make an off-season listing stand out.
How IU’s smart-fiber lab could supercharge Cook Medical’s devices
The collaboration will explore incorporating “smart fibers” into Cook Medical’s products to facilitate continuous, real-time monitoring of various bodily functions during procedures.
Carroll Award winner: Bill Oesterle succeeds big time, bridges cultural divides
The founder of Angie’s List and TMap, in recognition of his years of service as a community leader and entrepreneurial force, is the 28th recipient of the Michael A. Carroll Award.
9 tips for picking a financial planner
There are people in this world who supposedly enjoy personally planning and overseeing their own retirement programs, investment strategies and children’s college funds. For the rest of us, there are financial planners.
10 ways to make your next convention or event environmentally friendlier
Over the past few years, interest in hosting environmentally friendly, “sustainable” business meetings and conventions has risen as inexorably as sea levels and summer temperatures.
Meeting & Event Planning Guide: Great cocktails to try in downtown Indy—and the recipes to make them at home
From fancy options to one you can take with you, we’ve got several options to choose from.
Local businesses provide workplace experience for every Providence Cristo Rey student
One day a week, students work (and learn) at companies as close as a few minutes away, or as far as Carmel.
Purdue’s Aerospace District hyper about hypersonics
The international race to create hypersonic missiles has supercharged developments at Purdue’s Aerospace District, one portion of the university’s $1.2 billion Discovery Park, a research and industrial center adjacent to campus.
New IU president is ‘bundle of energy’
Pamela Whitten has developed a reputation for being a high-energy person who favors face-to-face meetings with everyone from students to faculty to potential donors.
How to decide when to exit coworking space
Startups in anything from incubators to shared workspaces generally fly the coop when the facility can’t physically accommodate their growing space requirements or employee headcount, or their host entity can no longer supply value through its services.
Renovated box factory anchors plans for 40-acre campus in neighborhood dubbed NOMA
Over the last two years, the Stenz Construction Corp., Third Street Ventures and Pure Development have undertaken a $25 million renovation of the former U.S. Corrugated Box Co. building.
2021 Indiana 100: Pandemic knocks Elwood Staffing but Columbus firm is roaring back
In this sprawling ecosystem of staffing firms, Elwood Staffing is, while not the big dog, certainly nothing to be trifled with. In 2020, Staffing Industry Analysts named it the 10th-largest U.S. industrial staffing firm, the 19th-largest U.S. staffing firm overall, and the 49th-largest staffing firm in the world.
Startup boosts college students’ ability to stay organized
Boost is a phone app that sweeps up information about students’ class assignments and uses it to nag them (in a friendly way) to get stuff done on time.
2021 Innovation Issue: Creating the post-pandemic workplace
Just as happened at the beginning of the outbreak, managers and employees are once again navigating terra incognita, feeling their way toward a new workplace normal.
Hybrid workers mean more ‘hoteling’ in offices
Given the revolution in staffing, it’s safe to say office redesigns will deal with two new normals—accommodating fewer full-time workers and making workspaces more resistant to the spread of disease.