JUNE 3-9, 2013
This week, J.K. Wall explores the likelihood that the Indianapolis area's four major hospital systems will merge and shrink down to two. While the change isn't imminent, national trends in health care suggest mergers might happen soon. Also, Anthony Schoettle takes you into a tiny gym on the northwest side of downtown where top college and pro basketball stars face off in the Knox Indy Pro Am Summer League. And in A&E, Lou Harry heads for a state museum not so far away (actually, downtown; you know the one) to soak in the inspired geekery of "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination."
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Explanations vary for dearth of women in top rungs of business
Of 112 public and large private-company CEOs, only four are women, although women make up 47 percent of Indiana's work force. The four Indiana companies with a woman as CEO at the end of 2012—Bioanalytical Systems, Fortune Industries, Defender Direct and HP Products Corp.—were among a tiny group nationwide with women at the helm.
Read MoreIndyGo jettisons big-name designers
An internationally known architectural team chosen to design a proposed IndyGo transit hub is no longer on the project, to no surprise of local architects who insist the transit agency botched the selection process from the start.
Read MoreAre hospitals on trajectory to pair up?
Indianapolis-area hospitals are undergoing such profound and permanent changes that some predict, eventually the four major hospital systems will merge and shrink down to two.
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Summer basketball league has become big draw for NBA, college stars
Carlos Knox runs The Knox Indy Pro Am Summer League, one of only a few nationwide where basketball fans can find top college and professional hoops stars facing off against one another on the hardwood.
Read MoreSierra Club puts Harding coal plant in crosshairs
The Sierra Club wants the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to block an IPL plan to spend $511 million on pollution controls at its 39-year-old Harding Street plant, plus a four-unit station in the southwestern Indiana town of Petersburg.
Read MoreNCAA overhauls bidding for championships
The NCAA is overhauling its event bidding format, and in June will bid out 500 championship events to be played over the next four years.
Read MoreTight credit or no credit? HHGregg wants your business
The Indianapolis-based appliance and electronics retailer is quietly making a fundamental shift to cast its net more widely—starting with stepped-up promotion of its private-label credit card.
Read MoreFirst Merchants accused of overdraft fee violations
A lawsuit seeking class-action status alleges that the Muncie-based bank manipulated the timing of customers’ transactions to cause their checking accounts to bounce more frequently, generating millions of dollars in overdraft fees.
Read MoreCity can tap $39 million in low-interest loans
Affordable-housing builders are enthusiastic about the new source of low-cost capital, which is targeted at a large swath of the inner city, excepting downtown.
Read MoreFishers buys properties, moves dirt to draw developers
Officials have quietly struck deals with more than a half-dozen property owners in the triangle-shaped targeted area west of Lantern Road, east of the railroad tracks and north of 116th Street.
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Indianapolis hospitals hit with tough bargaining environment
Aggressive construction wiped out historical territories, thus opening the door to insurers playing hospitals off each other.
Read MoreDocs court employers with health management service
Three years ago, the physician practice American Health Network was concerned that the boom in employer on-site clinics would hurt its business. So it launched a program aimed at managing the health of employers’ workers. And it has come up with some impressive results. Carmel-based American Health’s Employer Health Management program sends nurses to all […]
Read MoreROSENBERG: Employers weigh their options with health care reform
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act presents employers with new choices regarding their employee benefit plans. Indeed, while the act may be full of bad news for employers (fees, complicated provisions, uncertainty on specific requirements), there is good news, as well.
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EDITORIAL: Learn right lessons from scandal
Predictably, just days after U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett’s May 21 announcement that five people had been indicted in an alleged kickback scheme involving Indy Land Bank, the General Assembly announced it would make land-bank regulation the topic of a summer study committee.
Read MoreMORRIS: Improving customer experience is a full-time job
Successful companies never stop looking for a better way to conduct business.
Read MoreROSENTHAL: Women still struggle for opportunities to lead
In the early 1970s, when I was studying at Barnard College in New York City, I worked as a bartender.
Read MoreKENNEDY: Green over irrational hostility
A study recently published in Archives of General Psychiatry has linked the growing incidence of autism to early-life exposure to pollution.
Read MoreRACE: From Cardiff to Indianapolis, livable cities are universal
The capital cities of Wales and Indiana have much in common and are designing for the future.
Read MoreHicks: Finding the good and the bad in TARP bailouts
The Congressional Budget Office’s most recent assessment of the cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, in late May, occasioned far less thoughtful discussion of the role of government than it should have.
Read MoreSkarbeck: IPO of N.Y. skyscraper is a real landmark deal
Investors soon will have the opportunity to own a piece of an American landmark. The Empire State Realty Trust, whose signature property is the Empire State building, will offer shares to the public.
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Cornerstone, partners reap $120M selling medical properties
Cornerstone plans to use sale proceeds to help finance projects in the works in Indianapolis, Noblesville, Bloomington and West Lafayette, in addition to one in Mississippi.
Read MoreLand bank legislation could get lost in shuffle of deep agenda
Legislative leaders recently assigned House Bill 1317 to the standing commission, which is also due to tackle such subjects as township assistance, agricultural land valuation and a motorsports commission.
Read MoreNew institute aims to attract 100 research scientists to Indiana
The $360 million initiative will be formally launched on Thursday by Gov. Mike Pence, executives of five major life sciences companies and officials of the state’s research universities.
Read More500 Festival hires Atlanta marketing exec as CEO
Bob Bryant, a veteran sports marketing executive from the Atlanta area, has been named president and CEO of the 500 Festival, the Indianapolis-based organization announced Wednesday morning.
Read MoreOld National to close 13 Indy bank branches
The move, part of a statewide effort to streamline operations and save money, will leave 27 Old National branches in the nine-county area.
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