For investors, 2008 was the worst year since the Great Depression. Even so, more than half of the state’s public-company executives
saw the value of their pay packages rise from 2007—despite the fact that only 10 of the companies posted a positive total
return in 2008, and 46 companies shed more than one-third of their stock market value.
Forrest Lucas is following through on plans to take his namesake brand of oil and fuel additives to the mass market.
Within a month of joining the board of Evansville’s Integra Bank Corp. Mike Alley, former CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp’s central Indiana operations, had become Integra’s interim CEO.
Barney Levengood, executive director of the financially-struggling Capital Improvement Board, is one of the state’s highest-paid public employees, and some wonder if his pay should be cut.
Ind. Gov. Mitch Daniels will call the Legislature into special session to pass an acceptable budget, but some legislators think a budget that would satisfy the governor cannot be crafted by the contentious partisans in this developing fiasco.
Would embattled Emmis Communications Corp. sell its Monument Circle headquarters, a prized development that opened a decade
ago at what then-Mayor Steve Goldsmith called "the most important site in the city and the very center of Indiana?"
Dick Beltzhoover, a private investor in Omnicity Corp., a Carmel-based wireless broadband provider, has quietly taken the
company public and has lofty plans to expand nationwide.
Don Marsh lashed back last month after the owner of Marsh Supermarkets Inc. filed a lawsuit accusing him of billing the company
for millions of dollars in personal expenses.
The economic downturn has provided shareholders an opportunity to press for change
on a variety of corporate governance issues.
Mickey’s men’s and women’s camps—open for registration on a first-come, first served basis—offer compelling speakers, fun activities and food from the city’s leading restaurants.
IBJ reporter J.K. Wall asked Bryan A. Mills about his new job as Community Health Networks next CEO.
The Gene B. Glick Co. has managed to accomplish what few privately held family enterprises can—keeping the company alive
for
a third generation.
The wages paid by a company to its employees are a distinctly private matter.
Dennis May, 41, slated to take over as HHGregg CEO in August, vows to continue growing what is already the nation’s largest
regional electronics player.
Janie and I recently returned from a photographic safari in Tanzania with our children and their spouses.
Tim Durham is facing allegations of self-dealing after a publicly traded company he helps run in Dallas acquired assets from
a finance company he owns in Ohio.
An electronic succession-planning system created by Eli Lilly & Co. about seven years ago is sniffing out top talent.
It doesn’t matter what industry you are in or how well you have prepared–we will all be affected by what has taken place
in the financial markets over the past several months.
The most important piece of leverage Mayor Ballard has in negotiating with the Pacers is being willing to let them go.
Free marketers cringe at the thought of government interference, but the fact is that the taxpayer is now a significant shareholder in a number of financial businesses.
