The Carmel-based for-profit educator still will pay its top executives bonuses, but they’ll no longer be tied to school enrollment, the company said Tuesday in a proxy filing.
On March 11-12, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is joined by violinist Karen Gomyo for a program including Dvorak’s “Symphony No. 8.” Details here.
Camerata Ireland performs in concert March 11 at the Palladium. Tango Buenos Aires gets the Palladium dance series started on March 16. Details here.
The 200-seat Studio Theatre gets its first full production with Carmel Repertory Theatre’s “The Fantasticks,” March 11-27. Details here.
On March 10, Indy Fringe Theatre hosts “An Evening with Kevin Thornton,” featuring the comic who may be familiar to Fringe audiences for his “Sex, Dreams & Self Control” show. Details here.
Gamers interested in everything from Apples to Apples to Dungeons and Dragons gather for the free Who’s Yer Con, March 11-13 at the Holiday Inn North. Details here.
Glenn Hilliard, chairman of Carmel-based CNO Financial Group Inc., will resign from the board by not seeking re-election at the company’s annual shareholders' meeting on May 12. The board wants to appoint another director, Neal C. Schneider, to replace Hilliard. Hilliard, a former ING executive, has led CNO’s board since the company, formerly named Conseco Inc., emerged from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2003.
David Floyd, president of Warsaw-based DePuy Orthopaedics, a Johnson & Johnson unit that makes replacement hips and knees and is dealing with an expensive product recall, will resign at the end of the month to pursue outside interests, according to Bloomberg News. Floyd has been president of DePuy since 2007.
WellPoint Inc. named Kate Quinn its chief marketing officer, promoting her from her previous position as vice president of corporate marketing. Quinn joined Indianapolis-based WellPoint in 2005 after stints at PacifiCare Health Systems, The Hartford Financial Services Group and Cigna Corp. Quinn holds a bachelor's degree from the City University of New York and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
-Kort Builders has started construction of a 1,000-square-foot addition to Recess Restaurant at 4907 N. College Ave. The addition will serve as a separate restaurant called Room 4.
-Kort Builders has started construction of a 2,400-square-foot retail space for Sharkey’s Cuts for Kids at 12525 Old Meridian St., Suite 110, Carmel.
-Kort Builders has completed a 4,000-square-foot medical space for Massage Envy at 4000 W. 106th St., Suite 200, Carmel.
Most House Democrats skipped Thursday's floor sessions, extending their stay at an Urbana, Ill., hotel to a 10th day and preventing action on the bills because too few members are present.
Scott N. Flanders, who took over as CEO of Chicago-based Playboy Enterprises Inc. in July 2009, will pick up a 3-percent ownership stake if 84-year-old Playboy founder Hugh Hefner closes on a pending deal to take the company private.
Instead of offering to help would-be buyers of new houses sell their old homes, Marketplace is offering to become a rental property manager for as long as six years.
Without adequate funds, [Carmel] has been forced to subsidize the [Center for the Performing Arts] with taxpayer money. This is unsustainable, and we therefore need the assistance of the citizens of Indianapolis to help patronize this center by attending many of the scheduled performances now and in the years ahead.
Carmel-based ChaCha Search Inc., operator of an online question-and-answer site, sued Taiwanese company HTC Corp. for trademark infringement over the planned introduction of a smartphone called the ChaCha.
Activity won’t gain much steam until more entrepreneurs become optimistic, and optimism won’t materialize until the economy gets warmer, said John Barnard, managing director of Pearl Street Venture Funds.
Indiana-based Omnicity Corp. has filed countersuits against the owners of two companies it acquired who are charging in court that Omnicity failed to fully pay them for the acquisitions.
