SMITH: Demystifying university endowments
To ensure donor endowment gifts generate income that keeps up with inflation, we do not spend all the investment returns each year.
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GUY: When scholarships are like ear muffs
In the context of annual higher education expenses of $15,000 to $60,000, these grants represent little more than lunch money and minor relief for parents.
MUSGRAVE: Buyers in for the long haul care about firm culture
Sure, you can have a profitable company with a toxic culture, but for how long?
KENNEDY: 2017—Goodbye and good riddance
I’m very happy to bid farewell to a depressing year in which I’ve watched America being dismantled to benefit the president and his cronies.
FELTMAN: More good Trump in 2018, please
Here’s to a less riddled, mysterious and enigmatic 2018.
ROSS: A tax credit that works for Indiana
Compared with new construction, rehabilitation projects spend a larger percentage of costs on skilled labor, tend to keep wages and materials dollars within the community, and result in renovated buildings that tend to last longer and retain value longer than comparable new construction.
PITTSFORD: Don’t skip succession planning in family businesses
Only 30 percent of family businesses make it to the second generation, and only 15 percent make it to the third generation
GIGERICH: Make changes to venture capital tax credit
By making the tax credit refundable or transferable, investments in Indiana companies would become more attractive to investors at a time our 20 percent tax credit value is lower than that of many “best in class” entrepreneurial states.
ZWIRN: Tax bills betray GOP principles
The Republican tax bills stand among the most backward-thinking pieces of tax legislation since the 1920s.
FELTMAN: Why an avid IBJ reader became an owner
To ensure IBJ’s future, you will see us take chances and go in new directions in the coming months and years.
GUEVARA & KETZENBERGER: Boost economic development from within
Economic development requires strategic investments in people, networks and non-traditional collaborations to bring about great innovation, entrepreneurship and sustained, competitive growth.
VIEWPOINT: When government abdicates responsibility
Consumers Union is only one of the numerous consumer organizations opposed to repealing net neutrality. These organizations warn that, without net neutrality, internet service providers will raise prices and—even more troubling—give preferential treatment to favored sites and apps.
THANAWALA: Women in IT—from the classroom to the boardroom
Simply put, girls need to see more women in IT.
PATCH: Uncertainty puts damper on manufacturing
Even with all this optimism, many manufacturers feel a chill in the air as a result of a lack of clarity surrounding a few big issues.
McROBBIE: Delivering value beyond school walls
This fall at IU, we have seen a record 5,066 students enrolled in more than 115 online degrees and over 2,000 online courses offered by IU, a 4 percent increase over last year’s record.
WRIGHT: Congress must stabilize insurance market
One of the main reasons the individual market is unstable is because it lacks enough young, healthy enrollees paying premiums to offset the claim costs of older, sicker enrollees.
MURTLOW: Hand-raisers needed to fight rising poverty
What’s clear to us at United Way of Central Indiana is that business as usual is no longer a viable option. That’s why we’re investing in organizations, programs and initiatives that address the deep-seated and increasingly complex causes of poverty.
DUVALL: Teachers need affordable and safe housing near schools
Teacher’s Village, a cluster of affordable housing for teachers on the near-east side in Indianapolis, will be only five minutes away from several schools.
McCABE: Cities can drive climate action with Paris Accord in flux
If I were an Indiana mayor, I would ask: What are the best things I can do to serve my city and reduce my city’s carbon footprint?
KENNEDY: Faith-based economics fatally flawed
When President Clinton hiked taxes, the economy boomed. When President George W. Bush slashed them, the economy ultimately collapsed.