Wal-Mart gets into the casket business
Batesville Casket Co., the world’s largest manufacturer, says it’s watching, but isn’t worried.
Norm Heikens
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Steak n Shake and the new NEA chief
Should Biglari take Landesman’s remarks as praise where he can get it, or consider them an insult?
Catholic-owned builder edges into Indianapolis
When Sisters of St. Francis Health Services Inc. bought Tonn and Blank Construction Co. in 1998, more
than one employee of the Michigan City firm wondered what it would be like to be run by a Roman Catholic
order that not only owned a string of Midwestern hospitals but also traced its spiritual heritage to
a 12th century mystic.
Rating prestigious ZIP codes
A top-selling real estate agent pegs 46032 in Carmel and 46240 in Indianapolis as tops.
Saturn’s loss, Byrider’s gain
J.D. Byrider, the Indianapolis chain of used-car lots, is courting Saturn dealers to come into the fold as Byrider franchisees.
Marketing a former nerve gas site
Will it be harder to attract businesses to the Newport Chemical Depot than to sell a house where a grisly murder took place?
Bicyclists and traffic laws
As more bicyclists take to the streets in Indianapolis, is safety a greater concern?
Should Indiana take Gates’ money?
Indiana wants to apply for controversial funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to seek federal education grants.
Cutting corners on the I-69 extension
Gov. Mitch Daniels is raising eyebrows in the Evansville area for ramrodding a section of the Interstate 69 extension ahead
of schedule by a whopping three years.
The right mix of work and vacation
Americans have long desired the comparatively lavish vacations enjoyed by peers in other industrialized countries, but the
higher productivity of the U.S. economy is the trade-off.
Drugs in our water
Researchers are finding a host of pharmaceutical residues in tributaries to the White River, from which Indianapolis and other
cities draw drinking water.
A harrowing tale of decline
Telling a story about a company and a union that both feared the future, and fought to a bitter draw.
Afraid to die
Fear of death may be causing Americans to expect too much from our medical system when it comes to prolonging the lives of
the old and infirm.
Another year of bank migration?
More than a year a year after the financial crisis began, businesses are still looking for new bank relationships.
Assessing the stimulus in Indiana
The preliminary numbers are out on the effect of the $787 billion federal stimulus on Indiana.
Taking Ostrom to Indiana forests
How rich that Elinor Ostrom, the Indiana University professor who won a Nobel prize for economics yesterday, got her nails
dirty researching how people in pockets of forests in undeveloped nations allocate their natural resources.
Organizing armies of volunteers
A company has started to organize logistics for trade associations and other groups that gather for conventions in Indianapolis
and want to "give back" to the city while they’re here.
Federal workers dodging layoffs
One of the best places to have waited out this recession was in federal government. Federal workers have pretty much gotten
a bye on pink slips at a time private sector employees have taken it on the chin.
Steady as he goes at Purdue’s Krannert School
As Rick Cosier’s tenure as dean of Purdue University’s MBA program nears an end, expect the program to continue turning
out top "Quant Jock" operations managers–people who relentlessly figure out how to manufacture
things better and cheaper.
Dow AgroSciences and the Holy Grail
Dow AgroSciences could boost its market share in genetically altered corn almost overnight by inventing a perennial corn.
But investors might not have the patience.