Influential person: Bill Mays
Mays spent his life blazing new trails for both himself and the African American community.
Sam Stall
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Influential person: Stephen Goldsmith
During his two terms, Goldsmith continued the downtown revitalization begun by his predecessors. The most transformative project was Circle Centre mall.
Influential person: Mark Miles
Miles has overseen multiple high-profile events, earning him a reputation as both a master organizer and an expert at putting struggling organizations on an even keel.
Influential person: Mitch Daniels
The Daniels administration used budget cuts and the renegotiation of dozens of state contracts to turn Indiana’s budget deficit into a surplus.
Influential person: Dr. Virginia Caine
Through Caine’s decades in office, facing an AIDS crisis and battling Black infant mortality, the pandemic has tested her stamina like nothing else.
Influential people: Sidney and Lois Eskenazi
The Eskenazis have funded a long list of projects, from the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture & Design, to battles against diabetes. Their crown jewel is Eskenazi Hospital.
Influential person: Jim Morris
It’s hard to think of an important Indianapolis event that Morris didn’t have a hand in.
Carmel startup harnesses sun to help schools
Sun FundED specializes in providing what amounts to turnkey services for school systems that want to install solar-power systems, but lack either the funds or the know-how to handle it themselves.
Education champion doesn’t shy from tough challenges
Teresa Lubbers, IBJ’s 2020 Michael A. Carroll Award winner, has led the Indiana Commission for Higher Education since 2009.
Namesake church in Holy Cross neighborhood looks for a savior
The massive Italian Renaissance edifice, with its 136-foot bell tower, in August landed for the second year in a row on Indiana Landmarks’ 10 Most Endangered list.
Pandemic puts retailers in college towns to stiff test
The worst part for the hundreds of Hoosier small-business owners whose livelihood is linked to universities is the uncertainty.
Pandemic has changed the way homebuyers, homeowners think about houses
After spending months in virtual lockdown, some homeowners have learned their residences just don’t serve their needs. Or more accurately, the needs of a family in quarantine.
Direct foreign investment in Indiana now a key economic driver
After decades of skepticism, pretty much every Indiana political entity, from small towns to the Governor’s Office, strives to persuade overseas businesses to launch operations in the state,
Market Wagon looks to expand produce-delivery service nationwide
The 4-year-old company uses proprietary software and legions of small farmers and gig drivers to create an Amazon-like system that delivers fresh produce, meats, dairy products and other local food.
Four-year, $175M effort transforms Community East campus
Unlike so many other human endeavors, the transformation of the Community Hospital East campus hasn’t been stymied by COVID-19. At least not so far.
2020 Indiana 100: Cook Group still blazing own trail 9 years after founder’s death
The company, whose largest business is medical devices, generated $2.4 billion in revenue last year and employs 13,531 people worldwide, including 7,699 in Indiana.
2020 Innovation Issue: Consultant uses improv to help foster teamwork
ActUp Consulting founder’s classes focus on principles of improvisational theater—celebrating failure, adapting to the moment, and making your fellow performers look good.
2020 Innovation Issue: Brothers share a knack for creating life sciences companies
Philip and Martin Low’s latest venture, Eradivir, was incorporated in February to develop a treatment that would fight the influenza virus, but COVID-19 prompted a tweak to the business plan.
Donor organization to recover transplant organs at its own facility
The Indiana Donor Network Organ and Tissue Recovery Center has re-tasked two operating rooms and an intensive care unit to recover major organs, such as the kidneys, heart and lungs.
IU team pursuing breathtaking advancements in regenerative medicine
The emerging health care field seeks to develop methods for replacing or reinvigorating damaged human organs, cells and tissues.