Lesley Weidenbener

In our upcoming fall arts guide, IBJ reporter Dave Lindquist will spotlight more than 100 must-see offerings for the 2024-2025 arts season.

Birthday Chocolates delivers small boxes of homemade chocolates—most often turtles—to workers on behalf of their companies or organizations, usually for birthdays but also for work anniversaries or other occasions.

Kimberly Ryan’s time as CEO of Hillenbrand has been marked by transition transition, with several acquisitions and the divestiture of Batesville Casket, where she got her start.

The governor is urging the candidates vying to replace him to focus on issues related to the state’s economy, workforce and quality of life, and to develop plans to address the biggest challenges in those areas.

An Indiana University Health spokeswoman declined to explain the circumstances of Gil Peri’s departure, saying the hospital system doesn’t comment on personnel changes.

My dad loved basketball. The team he played on at tiny Gill Township High School in Sullivan County won the sectional in 1955, an achievement memorialized with a plaque and trophy displayed at the Merom Community Center. And basketball became a key part of our family’s life.

History: Greg Sartor had been working at Caldwell/Moser Tannery in New Albany for about two years when, in 2002, the company closed after some 125 years

Mung Chiang took over as president of Purdue University on Jan. 1—following the decade-long tenure of Mitch Daniels—and less than four months later signed off on the agreement that will formally separate IUPUI into two operations.

Thinking big and inspiring others to do so as well has been Mitch Daniels’ hallmark through five decades in business, public service and higher education.

I asked ChatGPT to “write a newspaper story about the history of the Indianapolis Business Journal.” The result—produced in seconds—was a flowery, verbose and often incorrect take on our news organization.