With Mundo Sanchez’s help, the refrigerated-trucking company has grown 1,000% over the past five years and this year made IBJ’s Fast 25 list of fastest-growing central Indiana companies.
Cindy Lucchese steers the financial fortunes of Penske Entertainment, the Roger Penske-owned entity she helped create when the racing icon bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the IndyCar series and IMS Productions from the Hulman family in January 2020.
With Todd Young’s guidance, Elanco spun off from Eli Lilly and Co. in March 2019. In the process, Young built a 60-person corporate finance department from scratch.
Doctors are reporting that a two-drug treatment involving a medication from Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. is especially helpful for COVID-19 patients who need extra oxygen.
Eli Lilly and Co. on Tuesday announced that it is buying New York-based Prevail Therapeutics Inc., an emerging player in the sizzling-hot area of gene therapies, which targets Parkinson’s disease and other brain-related maladies.
Lilly stock climbed Tuesday after the drugmaker laid out a better-than-expected revenue forecast and plans to buy a young company developing a potential Parkinson’s disease treatment.
Red tape, staff shortages, testing delays and strong skepticism are keeping many patients and doctors from the drugs made by Eli Lilly and Co. and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
Less than 20% of the monoclonal antibody doses shipped by two companies, Indianapolis-based Lilly and New York-based Regeneron, have have used, officials say, even though they can reduce hospitalizations by up to 70%.
Traditional drivers such as tax environment, regulatory burden and infrastructure are all important, but the best indicator of a community’s economic success is its human capital.
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.
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.
Indianapolis outperformed its competition not by accident, but with a bold vision executed by a combination of municipal, political, neighborhood and corporate leadership.
Four decades ago, “it felt like tumbleweeds rolled down Washington Street.” But aggressive moves to build the city skyline, develop hotels and create more places to live led to a transformation of downtown.
The city’s sports landscape was sparse, indeed, in May 1980. That was before the city adopted a sports strategy that led to the Pan Am Games, the NCAA and Indianapolis Colts moving to the city, and a string of high profile events including the Super Bowl and several Final Fours. Today, the city is a sports powerhouse.
By building innovative marketing-software startups since the mid 1980s, top Indianapolis entrepreneurs have created thousands of jobs and made hundreds of millions of dollars for themselves, their investors and colleagues.
