MOURDOCK: Higher education is everyone’s job
Soon, and for the first time in history, American retirees will be better educated than the American work force. Never before has a country “dumbed down” across generations like this.
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KENNEDY: Let’s find ways to sustain visitor business
Our city’s economic prosperity has been bolstered for many years by our strong convention and visitor business. We need to do what we can as a city to propel this important driver of our economy.
SHOBERT: Pursuing China is wise move for Indiana
Last year, for the first time ever, outbound investment by Chinese business into American industry exceeded outbound investment into Chinese firms by American companies.
HENDERSON: Thinking outside the neurotypical hiring box
There’s a screening process we often use in the human resources process that’s meant to identify prospective candidates. It needs re-thinking.
GIGERICH: Education, economy are closely tied
Ten years into the 21st century, most people understand that a strong education system is vital to ensuring long-term economic development success. Where things become fuzzy is in defining what comprises a strong education system and, more important, the required outcomes of that system.
GUY: Do meter-contract critics have a plan?
If clear certainty were a business criterion, nothing ever would happen.
WILLIAMS: Rebuilding a sustainable Indianapolis
Rather than simply building and repairing streets, sidewalks, bridges and parks, ratepayers and taxpayers should demand that these projects set standards for construction in Indianapolis by reusing or recycling materials, using environmentally friendly products, and designing public spaces to encourage physical activity.
HACKER: 2012 Super Bowl offers chance to give
It’s exciting to think that, in 16 months, thousands of people will arrive in Indianapolis from around the globe to be part of Super Bowl XLVI. And millions more will watch from their homes. Indianapolis truly will be in the spotlight in February 2012.
FAENZI: We’re more connected, but less engaged
I am appalled at the number of businesspeople who have their heads down, texting and checking their messages or the latest stock quotes while in meetings, attending a lecture, making a call on a customer, or interviewing a potential employee.
GARNER: Multifamily housing is not the enemy
It would be easy to blame the economy for our blighted urban neighborhoods. True, these tough economic times have led to more vacant and foreclosed houses than we can count. But the key to revitalizing a neighborhood stretches far beyond boarded-up houses.
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.”
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.
KHARBANDA: Indiana can lead in shaping energy policy
The
United States has shown little leadership in finding solutions to global climate change.
LOUGHREY: Hoosier leaders can fight global poverty
Our world is quite different from the one President Truman
and George Marshall faced in 1947. But the strategy for recovery and broad-based development should be built on a similar
foundation of public- and private-sector collaboration.
MERISOTIS: Boosting education boosts your company
By 2018, 63 percent of all jobs in this country will require some form of postsecondary education
or training. That’s a huge increase since the mid-’70s.
FELDMANN: Copying others’ tactics won’t always pay off
It’s common in any business or organization that hears about an incredible success and tries to replicate it by following the same steps.
WEIGAND: Reinvesting in neighborhoods is essential
Our city is about to engage in a high-stakes gamble to avert a death spiral—or
accelerate it and make it much more of a certainty.
GROSSMAN: Bill Gates wants to spend your money
Just as the government built an atomic bomb during World War II, the government should spend billions of dollars to create
the energy innovations for a low-carbon economy, according to Gates and friends.
CORLEY: Help a child and who knows where he’ll go?
Consider these alarming statistics: More than 6,700 Marion County students drop out of school every single year. Dropouts
earn $9,200 less per year than high school graduates, and earn $1 million less over a lifetime than college graduates.
CHEN: Indiana needs to become Asia-savvy
Our state needs to learn how to effectively engage with the emerging economies of the 21st century in order to be successful.