Former Butler University President Bobby Fong once told me the average undergraduate on his campus would experience six different careers—not jobs, but careers—during his or her working life. He also said many of those careers had not yet been invented. Bobby used this story to underscore the value of combining professional study with liberal arts […]
But has a liberal arts education instilled the ability to adapt well past mid-career?
Eli Lilly and Co. lost patent protection on its $5-billion-a-year best-seller Zyprexa in October, plunging the company into the long-awaited zone of uncertainty that it calls “Years YZ.”
During the four weeks leading up to Christmas, an estimated $1.84 billion in merchandise will be shoplifted this year, according to The Global Retail Theft Barometer. That’s up about 6 percent from $1.7 billion during the same period last year.
A Carmel-based power grid operator violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by firing a woman who suffered from post-partum depression, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges in a lawsuit filed Friday.
Dr. Bryan Schneider, a professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, led a team of researchers in identifying genetic variations that dispose some breast cancer patients to neuropathy when they are receiving chemotherapy with the drug Taxol. Schneider’s research was named one of the biggest advances in cancer research this year by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The society’s foundation also gave Schneider a three-year, $450,000 grant to further the research.
It’s hard to believe now, but as recently as two years ago, Indianapolis was close to losing its 15th-largest employer. Roche Diagnostics Corp. was looking seriously at moving its 2,900-employee North American headquarters out of Indianapolis.
Let’s get real: If so-called “right-to-work” laws generated economic growth, Mississippi would be an epicenter of economic activity.
The school said the work, involving seven students, at Dow AgroSciences represents its largest cross-discipline installation to-date.
On Dec. 21, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a final rule addressing fatigue among passenger-airline pilots.
After spending most of 2011 as a Wall Street darling, the year ended ugly for Endocyte Inc. But CEO Ron Ellis thinks the West Lafayette-based drug developer is in better position than ever.
Eli Lilly and Co., after more than a decade of setbacks, is counting on diabetes to help it survive a string of patent losses on other products that have begun to sap the drugmaker’s sales.
Pacers Sports & Entertainment and local tennis officials are hopeful a tennis event featuring Pete Sampras and Todd Martin at Bankers Life Fieldhouse will be a springboard to much bigger tennis events, maybe even a Davis Cup match.
For the first time in three years, Bioanalytical Systems Inc. boosted its annual revenue. But instead of receiving congratulations, one of the company’s largest shareholders said the company’s trends are “bleak.”
Local CBS affiliate WISH-TV has fired award-winning field reporter Brad Edwards, but General Manager Jeff White said the station will soon hire a replacement, plus two additional reporters to grow its staff.
Lawmakers are wasting their time if they spend a single minute on anything but bills meant to improve business conditions.
Many parents would joyfully let their 14-year-olds become roofers, if it meant more money for meth.
New program is making progress in volatile countries.
New York-based Epstein Becker Green already has clients here, including Biomet and Roche Diagnostics.
The Indiana Department of Transportation has ambitious plans to build roundabouts at 31 intersections statewide over the next five years, including a dozen in the metro area.
