Walker’s Indianapolis legacy remains strong. The Madam Walker Theatre Center in the 600 block of Indiana Avenue, once the headquarters of her business empire, is now a cultural center listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In our minds these celebrities are frozen in youth, but the calendar says otherwise.
A modest proposal: Pass a law outlawing everything patented after 1900. Think of the marvelous effects the law would have on supply and demand almost overnight.
It is obvious that Anthony Schoettle is not a fan of nor well informed about the Indianapolis Motor Speedway [Elements in place to keep IMS under family ownership, May 23]. Tony Hulman bought the Speedway from Eddie Rickenbacker, not Wilbur Shaw. Hulman’s “tax avoiding maneuver” was as legal and ethical as writing-off interest on a home […]
I was so disappointed to see the exclusion of the many arts organizations that count on the Broad Ripple Art Fair to spread the word about what is going on in Indy [Broad Ripple Art Fair—sans cultural organization booths—booms, IBJ.com, May 26]. It would seem that the Art Center would lend a hand to other […]
You have taken years to perfect your publication—putting together columnists and articles on a weekly basis that your readers want and need to read. I look forward to reading my IBJ every weekend. And then for some unknown reason, you throw all of that good work away and put out an issue like this week’s [Innovation […]
Cognitive bias has an outsized effect. It causes humans to take action when no action is indicated. It prompts a healthy person to seek major medical review when a neighbor has a heart attack, and sheriffs to create barely relevant strategies of personal defense.
If all goes well, Indianapolis voters will go to the polls in November, authorize a modest tax, and join the 21st century.
Patron of the arts, founder of Celadon, and a soft touch for community causes.
It’s important to many inside and outside of racing, and to the Indianapolis economy, that the team in charge not let up in seeking the broad audience the Indianapolis 500 deserves.
Rising Star chef Alan Sternberg dissects a favorite Cerulean dish
The arched steel trusses enabled the roof to cover a couple of acres without the need for beams, providing the vast and wide open spaces inside that would give the gazillion visitors to come in future years the sensation they had wandered into something that was part-gymnasium, part-national park.
The duo has built a reputation as innovative independent producers and a go-to, work-for-hire team that actors hunger to work with.
The growth of pure-play streaming providers disrupts our business on a daily basis. This is the wrong time for broadcast radio to believe its position will go unchallenged.
The workplace of the future will not be a specific location. It will more and more be wherever people find ways to temporarily interact.
Originally developed as the record-keeping technology behind the digital currency bitcoin, blockchain’s open-ledger system is predicted to transform finance and many other industries.
One of the biggest barriers to innovation is aversion to risk. This starts at the top. Nothing stops innovation faster than the executive kill card.
Embracing change and disrupting yourself isn’t easy, and sometimes it’s not much fun. But it may be better to try to ride the tsunami than to outrun it.
If a team is homogenous, its members will more likely arrive at similar conclusions in thought. Conversely, dissenting opinions lead groups to look at problems and evaluate solutions differently.
I still believe my decade-old vision is sturdy and world-changing, because even the best computers and algorithms are still able to answer only about 60 percent of the random questions asked by on-the-go people, doing real life.
