The state’s robust system of military installations, universities, industry partners and the nation’s fourth-largest National Guard collaborate on sophisticated projects and form what I call our “Hoosier Arsenal of Democracy.”
Capital can be a game changer in growth-stage companies’ ability to innovate, tap unrealized growth potential, retain and attract talent, and even survive the next economic downturn.
If we are honest, if we look at our recent and not-so-recent history, we’ll see that our democratic institutions have been malfunctioning, and our democratic norms eroding, for a long time.
Indiana has made a concerted effort to promote the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines, and, as a college president and engineer, I support that effort 100 percent. But I don’t believe that this emphasis should be at the expense of the arts and humanities.
Indy is a place you can join in. You don’t have to be a native to quickly engage and make an impact.
It is intimidating as hell to find your place when you lack almost any similarities with the majority of people in the room.
The ideals of freedom, democracy, opportunity, free enterprise and the chance for all to get ahead economically are threatened by the federal government’s current high-tax, large-deficit fiscal program.
Both industry and academia are well poised to help each other realize massive benefits from deep partnerships if we are willing to get creative about the ways we collaborate.
We have balanced our budget, reduced our endowment draw each year, and paid off more than $40 million in debt, while delivering a wide variety of exhibitions and programs to our community. This kind of change is not easy.
The ACLU has held every presidential administration accountable to the letter of the Constitution. And we will hold this administration accountable, too.
Expand your published workplace harassment and discrimination policy. Use it to express that your company places the highest value on respect for others and human dignity.
The mind should lead emotions when considering what to do about Confederate memorials. Inverting this equation leads to subjective—not clear-thinking, objective—decision-making. That
Millennials, rest assured. There is a silver lining in the national shortage of skilled labor. Quite simply, it’s you.
Using student test scores to measure teachers, and, by extension, their schools, is impossible, irrelevant, misleading, unfriendly and manifestly unfair.
It is expected that, by 2025, approximately 25 percent of individuals receiving developmental disability services will be over age 60.
What women really need leaders in tech to do right now is take principled positions against discrimination. Come out and say that sexism, bro-cultures and pay inequality are not OK.
In the IoT era, design must address the integration of objects, functions and processes at the systems level along with the creative ability to see connections previously unnoticed, and within a business’s economic and technological constraints. This can be taught.
How could people in the divided city of Aleppo, Syria, live such different lives? I couldn’t imagine it—until I considered ways our city is divided.
I’ll concede that private equity might have a marketing problem. Somewhere along the way, it got a bad rap, which is a shame when you consider the impact private equity has had in Indiana.
I will always remember a quote from my mentor, Ray Brown at Duke University: “You can’t keep your eyes on the hills when your nose is on the grindstone.”
