The Wishard Foundation announced Friday that it has named Ernest Vargo II as its president and chief executive officer. A veteran fund-raiser, Vargo takes the job as the Wishard Foundation embarks on a $50 million capital campaign to build a new Wishard Hospital. Vargo, who is also a consultant at Johnson, Grossnickle & Associates, has […]
Shortly after Interactive Intelligence Inc. decided two years ago to push beyond its roots in call centers and pitch its
communications software to more insurance agents and money managers, the company ran up against a tricky hurdle: the BlackBerry.
Terry Whitt Bailey, former director of Muncie’s Cornerstone Center for the Arts, will join the Madame Walker Theatre
Center in Indianapolis April 12 as president and CEO.
Former Indiana Economic Development Corp. project manager will focus on developing business relationships with European companies.
Airport’s new hires include Gov. Mitch Daniels’ chief legal counsel and a former Simon Property Group senior vice president.
Robust growth at marketing software maker Aprimo is fueling speculation it is about to make another run at going public, and
co-founder Bill Godfrey said he won’t rule out the possibility of an IPO.
Republican leaders in the Indiana Senate stripped several tax credits and other measures to create jobs from an unrelated
agricultural bill Monday.
The president of each school will update budget-cutting progress in state-of-the-university speeches Tuesday.
Sen. Evan Bayh brought home the bacon—more than
$1.4 billion in federal appropriations and grants in just the last 12 months.
No incentive can make a bad deal bankable. But President Obama’s stimulus measures are spurring some promising small businesses
to begin borrowing again, despite the recession.
The furor over WellPoint Inc.’s premium hikes have migrated from California to Indiana, where state lawmakers held a
high-profile hearing.
State House insurance committee chair grills executives about WellPoint’s 21-percent premium increase for individual policyholders
in Indiana.
BusinessWeek (www.businessweek.com) has a recent story about a growing $1.8 million enterprise that’s doing
just fine without the Internet, Web site, texting, customer-resource-management software, a fax machine or a single computer.
In fact, the company doesn’t even have electricity.
The Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association said Thursday that it has received a $5.4 million gift to help market the
city’s tourism and convention industries. The grant comes from a foundation headed by the developer of the Marriott Place
hotel complex under construction downtown.
Lithium battery maker EnerDel will need more business than its existing relationships with Think and Volvo to justify the $237 million investment
it announced Thursday.
Two new executive hires this month at WFNI-AM 1070 could mean changes for the sports-talk radio station known as The Fan.
Kravitz and Eddie’s future to get evaluated.
Groups that committed in 2009 to hold meetings in Indianapolis in future years booked a total of nearly 688,000 hotel-room
nights, a number that exceeded ICVA’s goal by 5 percent.
The Indiana Department of Correction plans to shed the jobs of 118 teachers for GED, literacy and vocational classes at prisons
by turning those programs over to Ivy Tech Community College.
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard said the city expects to recover $5.5 million from companies that failed to meet job requirements. The
city will use the money to fund economic development, convention, tourism and education efforts.
