Jim Lefevere: Can state turn health innovation momentum into sustainable scale?
Yet promising health tech companies still leave the state to raise growth capital.
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Jalene Hahn: Pressing priorities, high living costs disrupt retirement savings
The challenge is finding an adviser that can help you navigate the interplay between current competing spending priorities (housing, student debt, child care, medical and caregiving responsibilities) and making smart investment choices to provide for ever-escalating future spending needs.
Garrett Mintz: Firms need internal buy-in once they get past hustle phase
Here are four steps to driving strategic change in an organization: Have a change plan; share what’s in it for the individual implementing the change; get middle managers to share in their own words why the change is happening; and get quick wins and celebrate them.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Price bundling presents sellers, consumers with win-win proposition
To enhance profitability, it is always a good idea to make your customers better off.
Editorial: Shop local, contribute to nonprofits to make the most of the holidays
We have another way to help nonprofits. IBJ’s annual Holiday Wish List gives businesses and individuals a way to contribute goods and services to nonprofits rather than giving money.
Mitch Frazier: Look to veterans to fill workforce needs
They’ve led teams, managed resources and operated as part of a mission-driven enterprise united by a passion to serve.
David Berman: Medicare Advantage is working. Don’t undermine it.
If there’s anything even more important than affordability when it comes to health care coverage, it’s health results.
Tom Saunders: The good governance killer that is one-party rule
Indiana doesn’t need more partisanship—it needs more independence. We all deserve a government that listens, that collaborates and that earns our trust.
Andy Seibert: How these Indiana schools will become stronger together
Transportation and facilities might not always capture headlines, but they are foundational to how schools function and how families experience education.
Derek Schultz: The Colts’ new CEO deserves praise for the team’s turnaround
Irsay-Gordon had to abruptly step into her father’s shoes following his passing in May, but the new head honcho of the franchise was well-prepared to do so.
Samantha Julka: Getting to ‘yes’ when different strategies want different things
Real progress happens when people align on a leader’s vision and are given the agency to execute the vision in a multitude of ways.
Pete the Planner: You’ll know your appetite for risk when market falters
Part of what’s thrown off our sense of risk is how resilient the market’s been to bad news.
Editorial: Thanks to the city, businesses and nonprofits for help in feeding hungry
The reduced SNAP benefits delay and delay in providing them—not to mention the 24,000 federal workers in Indiana who are going without paychecks—mean there will be families who need help.
Nate Feltman: George Will on executive power and civic responsibility
Liberty depends not only on laws but also on character. Integrity, prudence and accountability are essential—for leaders and citizens alike.
Wendy Noe: Shifts in Medicaid hurt women seeking help in recovery
Recovery programs like Dove House exist within an interconnected system of health, workforce and community outcomes. When access to one part of that system erodes, the others inevitably feel the impact.
Andrew Peñalva: Workforce training efforts need corporations’ support
Let me be direct: Corporations cannot expect nonprofits to deliver ready-to-hire talent without investing in the organizations doing this work.
Letters: Shutdown hits companies, workers, food banks
To keep families in our community healthy and stable, businesses, government and the nonprofit sector must work together.
Mark Montieth: Brushes with gamblers were losing propositions for Indy pro hoopers
If nobody bet on sports, Indianapolis might still have an NBA franchise named the Olympians. Then again, if nobody bet on sports, the city might not have the Indiana Pacers today.
Letters: Focus on job creation threatens quality of life
There needs to be an open and honest public discourse about the complete lack of transparency at the IEDC.
Barb Cutillo: Collaboration is great—until overload causes burnout
The result: Teams are in “collaboration overload,” which slows down decision making, decreases innovation and destroys employee engagement.