Six Sigma guru scours city budget for savings
Efficiency expert Manny Mendez, who has saved the city $4.9 million since 2008 through Six Sigma practices, is now scouring government operations in search of $15 million more.
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WellPoint likely to go outside for chief
While WellPoint Inc. and its predecessors have a history of grooming new CEOs in-house, the next leader of the health insurance giant is likely to be an outsider, according to interviews with more than a half dozen former directors and officers of the company.
Short-line railroad shakeup coming around the bend
Four railroads in region being purchased by Connecticut-based operator as part of $2 billion deal.
State drug fraud cases on the rise, study says
Federal and state prosecutors have collected more than $30 billion from drug companies for alleged fraud and illegal marketing over the last 20 years, according to a new report by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.
MAY: Spur job growth by helping businesses compete
The most critical issue for District 7 residents is the economy. We need to redouble our efforts to create an environment for greater job growth. Mayor Ballard has done an excellent job of attracting investment domestically and by building partnerships throughout the world in this global economy. However, he needs a stronger partner in Washington.
HARRIS: Far too many students still aren’t ready for college
In Indiana and other states, we face a sobering reality: Far too few students are prepared for college-level coursework.
MARCUS: Candidates silent on grave projections
In the decade of the Great Depression, the 1930s, the population of Indiana grew 5.8 percent. Later, in the 1970s, a decade of great economic turmoil, the state’s population advanced 5.7 percent. The 1980s saw a strong recession and a subsequent restructuring of American business; Indiana’s population grew a mere 1 percent.
Group aims to cut costs of late-stage drugs
You know things are bad in the fiercely competitive pharma industry when drugmakers start turning to each other for help. But that’s exactly what happened last week when 10 major drug companies—including Eli Lilly and Co.—joined forces to cut costs out of clinical trials.
Charity watchdogs at odds with IUPUI professor
IUPUI economics professor Richard Steinberg stands by his philanthropic theory, despite seeing his fundraising principles speared by a charity watchdog group and then by a cable news network. At issue is his belief that charities are justified in spending heavily on fundraising, because doing so positions them for long-term success.
OneAmerica unit using hybrid policies to grow long-term-care sales
Using banks as a sales channel also boosts business in what has been a languishing product segment.
Luxury-outlet strategy puts Simon on top of mall industry
Luxury outlet malls—where upscale retailers such as Coach Inc. and Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. hawk discount goods—are now the main source of expansion for the Indianapolis-based real estate investment trust, the country’s largest.
Higher ed commission OKs IU philanthropy school
The university believes its School of Philanthropy will be the first in the world. The school will offer bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.
LOU’S VIEWS: Both sides now
A trio of Indy theater productions looks at the good in the bad and the bad in the good
Indiana Sports Talk still growing after 18-plus years
Statewide syndicated radio show thrives despite doubters, host’s heart attack.
MillerWhite signs slew of new clients in last six months
Marketing firm lines up almost two dozen clients, most of them based in Indiana.
VISKANTA: Big trends emerge from the lost decade for stocks
Investors are trying to get more bang for their buck and are unwilling to rely on the Wall Street firms, many of which helped bring the global economy to its knees just a few short years ago, for their investment needs.
Purdue health care engineering center lands another $10M
Purdue University’s Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering will get another $10 million from the Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Foundation, keeping its research going through 2018.
SOWELL: Obama long on intellectual arrogance
After reading Barack Obama’s book “Dreams from My Father,” it became painfully clear that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth.
SWAYZE: Where the real war on women rages
War on women? The only one I see is the plight of the single mother suffering from broken commitments, her own poor choices, and an overwhelmed system poorly designed to serve her and her children.
Vegetable growers, Dow settle dispute over new herbicide
A coalition of vegetable growers and food producers led by Indiana-based Red Gold Inc. will ease off their opposition to a new herbicide developed by Indianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences LLC.