Influential people: Honor roll
Former mayors Greg Ballard and Bart Peterson as well as Tony George and Mari Hulman made our honor roll.
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Influential person: Christel DeHaan
After selling a company she co-founded for $825 million, DeHaan dedicated her later life to providing education for poor children across the world and in Indianapolis.
Influential person: John Mutz
The former lieutenant governor headed up Lilly Endowment Inc. and PSI Energy and helped found the not-for-profit Lumina Foundation and White River State Park.
Influential person: Theodore R. Boehm
Boehm, a former Indiana Supreme Court justice, led the organizing committees of the National Sports Festival and the Pam Am Games and was first president and CEO of Indiana Sports Corp.
Influential person: Michael Browning
Browning has helped develop Indy’s downtown with signature projects including Pan Am Plaza and the NCAA headquarters and he’s been a key part of the efforts to make Indianapolis a sports powerhouse.
Influential person: Scott Dorsey
After ExactTarget founder Scott Dorsey sold his company in 2013 for $2.5 billion—a record for an Indiana tech company—throngs of former employees used their newfound wealth to launch central Indiana tech ventures. Meanwhile, ExactTarget’s buyer, San Francisco-based Salesforce, continued to grow the Indianapolis operation, eventually moving into the state’s tallest building and rechristening it Salesforce […]
Influential person: Jim Brainard
In his six terms as mayor, Brainard has overseen Carmel’s transition from a simple bedroom community into a bona fide destination, by building a pedestrian-friendly downtown from scratch.
Influential person: Dr. Don Brown
Brown has launched four companies, including three that have been acquired, and donated $30 million to establish Indiana University’s Brown Center for Immunotherapy.
Influential person: Dr. Frank Lloyd
Lloyd served as CEO of Methodist Hospital as it became the first non-university hospital to perform heart transplants, but he also owned radio station WTLC-FM, and was founder, chairman and CEO of Midwest National Bank.
Influential person: Thomas Binford
Business leader Tom Binford boasted an eclectic resume, but there was one skill for which he was particularly famous—fixing things.
Influential person: Bill Oesterle
The co-founder of Angie’s List led Mitch Daniels’ first campaign for governor and is now working to bring Hoosiers who have left the state back to Indiana to help grow its economy.
Influential person: Jeff Smulyan
Smulyan’s Emmis Communications has been a national force in radio, television and magazines such as Indianapolis Monthly.
40 ideas: Making ‘entrepreneurial spirit’ Indy’s brand will attract key talent
Traditional drivers such as tax environment, regulatory burden and infrastructure are all incrementally important, but the best leading indicator of a community’s economic success is its human capital.
40 ideas: More economic ideas to move central Indiana forward
A center for entrepreneurship, a full-service hotel in the airport and an Indiana research triangle are among the ideas submitted by readers.
40th ideas: Replace downtown freeways with boulevards
The freeways sit on some of the most valuable land in Indiana, making that land unproductive, yet costing millions to maintain. It creates no tax revenue, businesses or homes.
40 ideas: More ways to improve transit and transportation
Elevating trails, improving bike infrastructure and changing IndyGo’s route structure are among the ideas submitted to improve transit in Indianapolis.
Sarah Evans Barker: Courts reflect societal change
My engagement in and with Indianapolis the last 40 years as a lawyer and judge of the federal district court has allowed me to both observe and participate in the life of our city.
Steve Goldsmith: Bold vision and leadership has paid off
Indianapolis outperformed its competition not by accident, but with a bold vision executed by a combination of municipal, political, neighborhood and corporate leadership.
Albert Chen: Remembering Carmel full of cornfields
As a non-Caucasian living in Indiana, I am quite often asked, “Why did you move to Indianapolis?” This brings back memories of 1979, when my journey to Indianapolis began. At that time, I had a choice to relocate to Indianapolis, Dallas or Thousand Oaks, California. If you’re familiar with all these cities, you’re probably thinking […]
Cindy Simon Skjodt: ABA, NBA merger highlight of recent decades
Two of the greatest recent trends in Indianapolis are the inclusion of women in decision-making roles and the diversity in positions of power and politics.