MORRIS: Another app, and some perspective
As Indianapolis Business Journal launches its mobile phone application, I’m struck by how swiftly communication channels are changing.
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SLAUGHTER: Don’t fall victim to ‘imposter syndrome’
We might think entrepreneurs, managers and highly paid professionals would be awash in self-confidence. Yet in a 1978 paper, Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes of Georgia State University wrote that, “Despite outstanding academic and professional accomplishments [many] persist in believing that they are really not bright and have fooled anyone who thinks otherwise.”
EDITORIAL: Revive 21st Century Fund, boost entrepreneurship
One damper on Indiana’s entrepreneurial growth has been the shrinking of the 21st Century Research and Technology Fund, which has lost half its support because of state budget woes. As soon as state revenue permits, the state should bring this key program back to its funding level of $37 million a year, or boost it even higher.
MARCUS: Gutless government avoids political risk
When a government entity does not want to assume the political risk of managing its resources, it finds a private firm that, for a price, will do the job.
Talking Points: What’s the buzz on the Palladium, the opera and more?
IBJ’s annual rundown of issues the A&E world will be obsessing about this year.
HICKS: Trade unions strong when they work with biz
For labor unions to survive, they must follow the path of their more successful brethren in trade unions.
MAURER: Kindness is a measure of success
To create a disciplined investment philosophy, I evolved from my experience, “The Ten Essential Principles of Entrepreneurship that You Didn’t Learn in School.” Over the course of 10 columns, I will feature each of these essential principles. This is the fifth installment.
EDITORIAL: University research funding is on right path
Indiana’s public universities aren’t garnering enough research funding, and the research they’re conducting isn’t churning out high-paying jobs in quantities everyone would like, but Hoosiers shouldn’t be wringing their hands in despair.
DINING: On the canal, the Left Bank Cafe is all right
New eatery is close enough to the waters of the Central Canal that it should consider opening a gondola drive-through.
LOU’S VIEWS: Painting the blues in Washington, D.C.
Yes, my mission in Washington, D.C., was to deliver my daughter into the arms of academia. But with the chance to visit the Smithsonian, can you blame me for making an early exit from campus orientation?
Making a difference, one child at a time
ReadUp is a response to the startling truth that more than 30 percent of our community’s fourth-graders are two or more years behind in reading.
Don’t blame UAW workers
It seems that all the pundits from Rush Limbaugh to the World Socialist Website have entered the fray concerning the fate of the Indianapolis stamping plant, while the real culprits escape scrutiny and feign innocence.
Help our kids pursue degrees
Recent columns from Mickey Maurer (“Even CEOs need mentors,” Aug. 9) and Bruce Hetrick (“How to make the recession last forever,” Aug. 21) underscore important (and related) ideas, namely that everyone needs help and guidance to succeed, and that success in postsecondary education among our children is no longer an option.
MERHOFF: Regionalism according to Yoda
How can we in central Indiana compete? We can build competitive regional clusters that provide what matters to businesses. An educated, affordable labor force. Dependable infrastructure. Quality-of-life amenities that appeal to today’s employees and tomorrow’s.
MARCUS: The highs and lows of unemployment
Indiana’s unemployment rate in July was 10.1 percent—the 12th-highest of the 50 states. Nevada was running at 14.3 percent to lead the nation, while the lowest rate was 3.6 percent, in North Dakota. We’re much closer to the worst than we are to the best.
BENNER: Conseco hosts what could be bloody good show
My introduction to the raw reality of boxing left me with admiration for the physical skills necessary to be a fighter and the sheer toughness it takes to get into the ring. However, at the same time, being young and naïve, I was shaken by the brutality of the enterprise.
WEB REVIEW: Find your address book perplexing? Consider Plaxo
At heart, Plaxo is a manager for your address book (or Rolodex if you happen to be of a certain generation).
HAUKE: Stock market not ready for bear quite yet
I continue to believe the April 23 high was not the end of the bull market that began in March 2009.
HICKS: Most majors pay off, but some a lot more than others
There is clearly something important about the totality
of what is learned in college, but, if you want to apply all those upper-level classes in your major, you’d better study
hard or pick the right field.
Museums can’t change canal alone
As a longtime downtown resident and property owner, and frequent user of the Central Canal, I read with great interest the
[Aug. 16] article “Missing the action: Museums struggle to capture foot traffic from busy canal."