Indiana welfare officials considering canceling the state’s privately run welfare system have no backup plan in place, and critics say it will be hard to undo the privatization of 1,500 state case workers more than two years ago. Anne Murphy, secretary of the Family and Social Services Administration, confirmed recently that the system led by […]
This year’s Indianapolis International Film Festival gets rolling later this usual, with a bump to summer precipitated
in part by the moving on of its founder to the Nashville Film Festival and in part by the move of most of the fest (minus
parties) to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. We’ve spent the last few weeks reviewing most of the
features in competition.
The Indiana Minority Supplier Development Council has made life sciences companies its latest target—part of an even larger effort to attract minorities to the burgeoning life sciences industry under
way on a national scale.
As one of the city’s most prominent minority business owners, Bill Mays built his chemical distributorship largely on the backs of domestic automakers. In 1980,when he founded Mays Chemical Co. Inc., the Big Three accounted for nearly 75 percent of all new-car sales. But that number has dwindled to less than half of all new […]
Last fall’s Wall Street meltdown, which erased half the value of some 401(k) retirement plans, has both employers and employees
re-examining what to expect long term.
Last fall’s Wall Street meltdown, which erased half the value of some 401(k) retirement plans, has whipped up some of the fiercest crosswinds the plans have faced in their three decades of existence. Blowing from one direction, cash-strapped employers are trying to cut back on retirement plan contributions. Others are looking to shut down their […]
Doubling annual sales might seem an impossible feat in a recession, but at the modest office of Williams Comfort Air and Metzler’s
Mr. Plumber, it is a reality.
Organizations hosting events at Lucas Oil Stadium already expected to pay more than they did at the RCA Dome, but some fear the Capital Improvement Board’s financial difficulties could drive costs even higher. The concern is greater for not-for-profits operating on tight budgets that likely will pay at least 25 percent more to use the […]
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Norwood Promotional Products Inc. suggests it’s positioned to sail through bankruptcy, thanks to a pending-sales agreement. But creditors, owed nearly $300 million, are expected to balk.
Doctors joining hospital payrolls Specialists reacting to major changes in reimbursement Amid the aroma of its lobby coffee shop and soothing tones of its player piano, the Indiana Heart Hospital sits at the center of significant changes in how Indianapolis’ hospitals and doctors do business. The 56-bed facility in Castleton was launched in 2003 as […]
Specialist physicians, who have traditionally been fiercely independent, are more and more coming on as employees of hospitals.
Amid the aroma of its lobby coffee shop and soothing tones of its player piano, the Indiana Heart Hospital sits at the center of significant changes in how Indianapolis’ hospitals and doctors do business. The 56-bed facility in Castleton was launched in 2003 as a forprofit venture between Community Health Network and its cardiovascular physicians. […]
A friend of mine is a minister and an expert on church management and growth. During one of our discussions, it struck me
how much starting and running a church is very like running a business. There are the same problems with morale, with retention,
with site selection, finance, marketing and growth pains. And with technology.
Undaunted, some entrepreneurs still count on franchises, despite the shaky economy.
Three entrepreneurs from the medical and software realms are herding angels to invest in upstart life sciences companies in
Indiana.
Three entrepreneurs from the medical and software realms are herding angels to invest in upstart life sciences companies in Indiana. StepStone Angels won’t be a fund, per se, but a membership-based group that brings together wealthy investors and slides promising companies their way for evaluation. Angel investors typically bridge the gap between an early-stage company’s […]
Some of Indiana’s most high-profile women have something in common beyond their gender and community status: They were Girl
Scouts.
The state’s two biggest pension funds are poised to combine into one Indiana Public Retirement System, with a single executive
director and board.
The state’s two biggest pension funds are poised to combine into one Indiana Public Retirement System, with a single executive director and board. And they’ll need only one tourniquet to stem their bleeding. Over the last 15 months, the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund and Indiana State Teachers’ Retirement Fund have hemorrhaged a combined $8 billion. […]
