Grab a partner and dance. Fast. The stimulus bill passed last month essentially sets a five-year time line for doctors to start using electronic medical records and for states to figure out how to exchange those records from doctor to doctor. That has prompted Indiana businesses and not-for-profits that deal in medical records to look […]
In this space last week, I wrote that the Great Depression ended in 1937. Several readers reminded me that for those who lived through it, the Great Depression did not feel over until much later. For some, hardship and denial did not end until well after World War II. Others failed to see significant improvement […]
Grab a partner and dance. Fast. The stimulus bill passed last month essentially sets a five-year time line for doctors to start using electronic medical records and for states to figure out how to exchange those records from doctor to doctor. That has prompted Indiana businesses and not-for-profits that deal in medical records to look […]
Young & Laramore, the city’s largest advertising agency, has launched a division focusing on digital and design work. It’s the first new division for the firm since it launched EchoPoint Media, its media buying arm, more than 10 years ago. Y&L is picking a precarious time to expand. North American advertising spending overall is expected […]
The 600-seat Randall L. and Marianne W. Tobias Theater (nicknamed The Toby) sits at the nexus of two cultural frontiers. On the arts front, it offers a home to cutting-edge entertainers, speakers and films. On the environmental front, the newly remodeled performance space is arguably the greenest facility of its kind in the nation. It […]
If angel investors have any hair left, it’s usually gray from a lifetime spent in entrepreneurship. That’s what makes Gravity Ventures LLC unusual. The 15 professionals who recently formed the $1 million fund are all in their 30s. “The folks in our group are still in the ‘doing’ part of their careers, so that brings […]
Businesses have seized on environmental responsibility as a marketing mantra. But many have made their products, processes and facilities greener. Some are motivated by philosophical reasons, and others by rising energy bills and out of anticipation of federal regulations on carbon dioxide. Six experts in green issues shared their outlook during IBJ’s Power Breakfast Feb. […]
How we feel individually about the economy is often at odds with how the economy is performing.
Billions of stimulus dollars meant to spur doctors to switch to electronic record-keeping may not be enough to do the job, a private consulting firm said yesterday. The stimulus bill that President Barack Obama signed last month contained $19 billion for health information technology, including $17 billion for incentives and penalties to encourage doctors and […]
The coffee pot was broken at Stellarwind BioEnergy. It was probably just as well, since most of the liquid percolating at its home-in the former Hoosier Orchid Co.-is green and algae-ridden. It’s in water-cooler jugs and 64-ounce Coke bottles backlit by fluorescent tubes, back in the lab. But the main act at Stellarwind is “the […]
Today, with our national economic crisis, it is easy to focus on getting jobs. Under such dire conditions as those facing some workers, homeowners and retirees, we can forget that getting back to where we were before all this economic distress may not be an appropriate goal. Imagine with me that Hershel Hoosier was born […]
At a time when the field of journalism is shedding thousands of jobs, Indiana University’s journalism department is seeing record growth. The growth is so strong, IU officials said the journalism school will have to abandon its home of the last 65 years for a facility twice its size. What appears to be an anomaly […]
The trio of attorneys who practice in the local office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s life sciences group is a self-deprecating, peculiar bunch. Not only are the three the punch line of an occasional lawyer joke, but they’re also the target of lighthearted ribbing about their scholarly credentials. “We’re the geeky group,” patent attorney Kevin […]
Indiana leaders need to focus on the increasing gap between the average wage in Indiana and in the nation.
This week I’m going to be
your own, personal Pollyanna and try to cheer you up with some good news.
The trio of attorneys who practice in the local office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s life sciences group is a self-deprecating, peculiar bunch. Not only are the three the punch line of an occasional lawyer joke, but they’re also the target of lighthearted ribbing about their scholarly credentials. “We’re the geeky group,” patent attorney Kevin […]
Popular search engine company ChaCha Search said yesterday that it had raised another round of funding — and laid off 25 workers.
So, the economy is taking a toll on ChaCha revenue even while investors continue to believe the…
Inflation nearly disappeared in January for the first time in 50 years, with only a slight rise in the Consumer Price Index saving the country from deflation. Rising prices are hardly a concern now, as the depressed auto and real estate sectors can attest. But economists fear inflation might pose a threat as early as […]
Cost-cutting and layoffs at the city’s museums and full-time orchestra haven’t brought many visible changes so far. The scenario could darken considerably in 2010, 2011 and 2012, as cultural institutions fully account for devastating investment losses in their endowments-a key source of income. “It’s a bigger problem than what most people think,” said Andy Bawel, […]
With one hand, Rob Koharchik refills his tall coffee cup with liquid energy. With the other, he cradles rolled-up floor plans like a football. He quickly climbs several flights of dark concrete steps to reach a small stage, where a worker on a lift is filling a jury-rigged bucket with fake flower petals. In less […]
