Indiana Business Magazine articles from November 2006

Indiana Business Magazine archives from November 2006

Talent does not come cheap: should higher university pay be part of job growth strategies?(INDIANA INDICATORS)
November 1, 2006... PUNCH IT UP ON GOOGLE Earth, or just look out an airplane window the next time you fly into Indiana, and you'll agree. There's really no such thing as an Indiana economy. With cities and towns in two different time zones, stretching from the...

Hoosiers like Chevys: foreign brands may be built here, but IU study says we prefer domestic.(AROUND INDIANA)
November 1, 2006... BASEBALL, HOT DOGS, apple pie and Chevrolet. Few can forget that landmark Chevy marketing campaign from the mid- to late 1970s, placing the American automaker amid other things strongly correlated with being a true, patriotic American. ...

Winning outcomes: Indiana's top-rated hospitals.
November 1, 2006... IT IS COMMONLY ACCEPTED THAT admittance to a top-rated hospital increases your odds for a better medical outcome. That has never been more true than now, according to the 2007 Hospital-Quality Study released last month by HealthGrades, an...

Developing story: update on Indiana's major real-estate developers.(REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION)
November 1, 2006... OPEN-AIR LIFESTYLE centers, master-planned mixed-use developments, major developments for logistics, acquisition and renovation of existing strip malls--these are just some of the recent projects of Indiana's real-estate developers. Simon...

Five fundamentals: what communities must know about site-selection decisions.(ADVICE: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)
November 1, 2006... BUSINESS-ATTRACTION efforts can stir up a number of issues--and no shortage of emotions. As an economic development professional, you're very familiar with your community's strengths. Sometimes, however, economic-development professionals...

Building a name: major commercial construction companies.(REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION)
November 1, 2006... ANCON CONSTRUCTION CO. INC. Address P.O. Box 825, Goshen, IN 46527 Vice president of business development Gary Wetzel Year established 1975 Number of employees 70 Types of work Design and build commercial...

Time to make a deal? What's driving the volume and prices of companies sold?(FINANCIAL SERVICES)
November 1, 2006... WHILE THE CURRENT television game show "Deal or No Deal" allows contestants to make a deal just by guessing which briefcase holds the most money, deal-making for Indiana businesses is a little more difficult as out-of-state money comes in with...

MBA update: executive summary of Indiana graduate business programs.(EDUCATION)
November 1, 2006... AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF declining interest in MBA programs from both students and recruiters, things seem to be turning around for the traditional measure of higher business education. That's good news for the Indiana schools offering MBA...

BioSmarts: college programs for Indiana's life-sciences future.(EDUCATION)
November 1, 2006... "LIFE SCIENCE IS GOING to be the overarching theme for the century," says Jeffrey Vitter, dean of the college of science, Purdue University, West Lafayette. "Life science is the No. 1 priority of IU," says Craig Brater, dean of the Indiana...

South-Central Indiana update: the region's top business stories.(REGIONAL REPORT: SOUTH-CENTRAL)
November 1, 2006... New manufacturing. Cummins Inc.'s employment base of 5,400 in the Columbus area, where it is head-quartered, is about to grow by up to 800, the company said last month when it announced that the Columbus Engine Plant would produce a new family...

Breaking away at the lab: Bloomington Life Sciences Partnership.(REGIONAL REPORT: SOUTH-CENTRAL)
November 1, 2006... THE ENTRANTS HAVE MET the qualifications, passed the time trials and are lined up on the track. Like competitors at the Indiana University Little 500, this team is riding, not bicycles but a wave of life-science business success. Known as...

Indiana's workforce: Indiana's future: lifelong learning is essential to state's continued growth.(VIEWPOINT)
November 1, 2006... THANKS TO THE leadership and legislative accomplishments of Gov. Darnels and our legislature, Indiana is on pace for another record year with respect to job commitments and capital investment (more than 22,000 new job commitments and $7.3...