The IBJ Podcast

Nov 17 2024 100 ep. 40 mins 164

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A weekly take on business news in central Indiana. The IBJ Podcast is brought to you by Taft.

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Inside jeweler’s decision to close one of downtown’s oldest businesses

Nov 17 2024 36 mins

Windsor Jewelry has operated within a stone’s throw of Monument Circle since the year 1919. Some of its client relationships go back five generations. It has been owned by only three people: its founder, Sig Asher; then Asher’s son-in-law, Herman Logan; and then Greg Bires, an employee who bought the business from Logan in 1998. It has survived the Great Depression, the economi

Pete the Planner on Trump’s potential impact on investors, taxes, inflation and the auto industry

Nov 10 2024 34 mins

Donald Trump is headed for a second term in the White House. The pundits have had ample opportunity to dissect the political implications of his victory. For this week’s podcast, we wanted to explore the potential financial repercussions of a new Trump administration.There’s no mystery about his fondness toward tariffs—the taxes applied by the government for imported or expor

Inside the plan to extend life expectancy for residents of five Indy neighborhoods

Nov 03 2024 37 mins

One way you can gauge the health of a city is the number of cranes on its skyline. One of the biggest contributors of cranes over downtown in the last two years has been the $4.3 billion IU Health hospital campus under construction just south of Methodist Hospital. It’s a generational development for that side of downtown, but IU Health officials want to make sure it doesn’t ov

What Indy tourism guru Chris Gahl learned from his father’s murder, surviving cancer

Oct 27 2024 43 mins

Last week’s edition of the IBJ Podcast featured Chris Gahl, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Visit Indy, unpacking the strategy for promoting Indianapolis to a worldwide audience during Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. As promised, we have a follow-up interview with Gahl this week that is so different from last week’s that we needed to carve out a separate sp

How Taylor Swift will give Indy a massive platform to promote itself

Oct 20 2024 38 mins

Does anyone need reminding that Indianapolis is less than two weeks away from hosting Taylor Swift and the last U.S. dates for the Eras Tour? There of course are three shows scheduled Nov. 1, 2 and 3 in Lucas Oil Stadium, and more than 50 related events planned across the city to entertain fans over what essentially will be a major holiday downtown. About 200,000 people are expecte

What’s the potential impact of Lilly’s $4.5B ‘medicine foundry’ in Lebanon?

Oct 13 2024 28 mins

The LEAP Research and Innovation District under development near Lebanon represents a shift in the way economic development officials are working to attract companies to Indiana and create jobs. Its detractors have objected to the strategy by the Indiana Economic Development Corp. to corner thousands of acres of rural land for the project. Some are highly skeptical about the impact

Indy food bloggers ‘A Couple Cooks’ on becoming internet famous, publishing new cookbook

Oct 06 2024 45 mins

Sonja and Alex Overhiser are among the most influential chefs in Indiana, but you won’t find them working in any restaurant. From the kitchen in their home south of Broad Ripple, they have created, tested and posted more than 3,000 recipes to their 14-year-old food-influencer website, acouplecooks.com. It logs millions of pageviews per month, while the Overhisers also maintain a

From the Army to finance to tech to owning an excavation firm, Andrea Sloan says ‘yes’ and takes chances

Sep 29 2024 44 mins

Readers of IBJ’s annual lists of fastest-growing Indianapolis-area companies might be familiar with GroundBreakers, formerly known as GroundBreakers Hydrovac Excavation. Between 2021 and 2023, its annual revenue grew 143.1% to $18.9 million, which was good for 10th place on our most recent list. All of that growth came under President Andrea Sloan, who was recruited in 2018 to be

Fever’s sales guru on preparing for Caitlin Clark, using data and AI to win over fans

Sep 22 2024 56 mins

The Indiana Fever's 2024 season has been transformational for the team on the court, in the box office and in the revenue column, in particular with the advent of two major difference-makers. One, of course, is all-star rookie Caitlin Clark, and the other is the rapidly advancing technology that the sales and marketing teams use to entertain—and retain—ticket holders from the F

Orr fellows leverage networking to boost value of tech, entrepreneurial positions

Sep 15 2024 46 mins

Now in its 23rd year, the Orr Fellowship program has helped develop an astounding number of leaders in Indiana’s tech and entrepreneurial ecosystems. It now counts 624 alumni who have worked at—and in some cases founded—nearly 300 significant companies and organizations. The program was established in 2001 to help develop the early careers of promising college graduates, in p