Business

BROWN COUNTY — What had been a 70-year-old tobacco barn has been transformed into south central Indiana’s newest event venue.

INDIANAPOLIS — IBJ Media has named Craig Dwight, Chairman, Horizon Bancorp, Inc. and Horizon Bank to the 2023 class of Indiana 250, a list of the most influential and impactful business and community leaders in Indiana.

Vipul Srivastava, IUPUC adjunct business professor, has been awarded a 2023 Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) Innovate award. These awards recognize faculty who bring passion, innovation, and creativity to the classroom to promote student success. They also help share and disseminate best practices in teaching for the benefit of the entire IU community.

The following is an excerpt from Kirr, Marbach & Co.’s second quarter client letter, available at kirrmar.com.

A local couple is hoping to make Columbus a little greener, one ounce at a time.

EDINBURGH — Mall shoppers know how exhausting it can be to visit store after store in search of something specific: size 10 men’s brown dress shoes, for instance, or fluffy bath towels in a certain shade of blue.

As a society, we not only crave, but demand instant gratification. Whether it’s “One-Click” ordering on Amazon Prime for delivery to our doorstep tomorrow (or even today), streaming the latest video or audio entertainment or making money in the stock market, we want it easy, we want it cheap and, most of all, we want it right now. Corporate America has done a great job enabling and monetizing our ever-growing collective obsession with immediacy.

A 13-member committee will convene this summer to examine how Hoosier communities large and small can attract economic development while protecting prime farmland.

When Ziwei Cong bought some sweatpants that caught her eye during a livestream shopping event on social media, she was disappointed when they arrived and didn’t fit well.

After over 40 years with Cummins, my husband retired on May 31.