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J. Scott Davison: Indianapolis will make history during Olympic trials
To make this event all it can be, we need our community and our local corporations to support the event. Olympic Trials will be the most exciting event of the summer. You won’t want to miss it!
Garrett Mintz: Survivor’s guilt: 3 ways to build morale after layoffs
Layoffs are part of a business’s natural ebb and flow.
2024 Innovation Issue: 5 keys to driving Indiana’s manufacturing future
Innovation is the thread woven through these truths, not only in the digital sense but also as it relates to the education and training of our future workforce, providing strategic funding and proactively building the powerful partnerships necessary to effect real change.
Editorial: Indiana should invest more to make sure manufacturers have latest tech
Indiana’s strategic advantage as a manufacturing powerhouse is dependent not just on companies that are building new plants with the latest technology but also in ensuring that existing manufacturers—many of which are suppliers for the big guys—implement the latest technology. If they don’t, they could lose the ability to compete.
Nate Feltman: 3 big challenges await Indiana’s next governor
Gubernatorial candidates Sen. Mike Braun and Jennifer McCormick have an opportunity to explain to Hoosiers their ideas to address our failing K-12 education system, rising energy costs and rising health care costs. Doing so will lay the groundwork for action in 2025.
Greg Zoeller: Carbon capture can usher a new era of manufacturing
In our industrial landscape, the traditional image of manufacturing is often associated with billowing smokestacks and environmental degradation. However, thanks to advancements in carbon capture and sequestration, this image is rapidly becoming outdated.
Chuck Surack: Downtown Heliport is asset too valuable to give up
Indianapolis can be both a hub for aviation innovation and an elite sports destination. These are not mutually exclusive options.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Innovation drives investment outcomes
According to Bruce, if a person had bought the used Tucker in 1951 and reasonably maintained and stored the car, it would be worth at least $1.5 million today.
Letters: Indianapolis 500 blackout serves greater purpose
There is still magic to listening to the race on the radio. You experience the gravity placed on honoring the troops, you can feel the speed of the cars racing across the track, and for the 90 seconds that “Back Home Again in Indiana” is sung, everyone listening feels like a Hoosier.
Fed should stay the course until inflation is under 2%
As a result of distributing COVID-19 relief funds to pretty much everybody, spending rose, eventually triggering inflation.
Peter Dunn: Your financial adviser is changing firms. What now?
I think sometimes people forget that business relationships are still relationships.
Mark Montieth: Am I blessed or what?’
“Blessing” is a word he uses to describe his experiences with this place and this race since he arrived at the speedway in 1965—not to mention the rest of his career.
Editorial: Business leaders need to recognize workforce development takes time
Fully implementing an apprenticeship model won’t take just a few years, said an expert who spoke at IBJ’s inaugural Education Power Breakfast. It could take a decade. And reaping strong results will take much longer.
Kristen Cooper: Deep buyer insights help attract, maintain customers
“Buyer insights” are the keys to sustaining and expanding the customer base.
Gail Boudreaux and Kevin Love: Changing mental health mindset requires full court press
We need to normalize asking for help and make finding care easier for people seeking it. That means not only connecting people with the right care provider but also matching expertise to the cultural lens through which a person is looking.
David Pierce: How to further elevate sports as Indy’s ‘front porch’
We must continue to capitalize on our strengths, and once we have visitors here, work to facilitate a connection for them to our community’s broader culture and identity that they won’t soon forget.
Ilya Rekhter: Founders, embrace the sink-or-swim moment
My initial thought was that we’d be better off selling funny-sounding presidential cereal.
Derek Schultz: Rivals and villains
Indy sports fan hatred is not limited to the Knicks, though, as several other teams and individual players have emerged as villains in the Indianapolis sports landscape over the years, many of whom still inspire revulsion to this day.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Devil is in the details with ceasefire results
Ceasefires are tools groups use to improve their economic and political positions.