Kansas

Health Care Special Report

From countless sources of inspiration, a call to serve is common cause for those who have made health care their vocation and avocation. For some, the call to a health-care career started with the impressions left by a mother coming… more

Executive Health Series

A graying work force implies an executive population with its own bone and joint health issues—and the task of managing similar conditions with their employees. Throughout its days of youth and into what’s now popularly referred to as the Silver… more

Diversity Directions

Ferguson and MU changed the conversation about race in Missouri, creating opportunities for business to re-examine diversity efforts. Two incidents rooted in the challenging subject of race relations—the Ferguson riots in 2014 and the student protests on the MU campus… more

Health + Wellness Report 2016

Company-Paid Health Insurance: A New Kind of Corporate Challenge Are double-digit increases in employer-paid health-insurance premiums simply a fact of business life? If you answered “yes” to that question, you might want to consider what corporate benefits administrators, insurance brokers and… more

A Region on the Move

Transportation in the Kansas City region is going places. The question is, where, how far, and what will it cost us? In many ways, Kansas City indeed is a metropolitan area on the move. In various parts that’s because: • We… more

Maybe Creditors Should Hire a ‘Bawlerout’

The history of personal debt in the U.S. suggests we’ve not strayed far from our roots: Americans always look for more. From what I read, and from what I have experienced personally, people who owe money today act as though… more

Workplace Wellness: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

... and other misadventures in regulation Workplace wellness programs remain on the rise. More employers than ever are using the programs to identify, evaluate and treat health risks posed by employees, and in some cases to incentivize lifestyle changes to… more

Missouri: Value-Added, From Border to Border

From across the expanse of the Show-Me State, Ingram’s is pleased to introduce you to 50 accomplished business people with unique interests beyond their careers. Five years ago, Ingram’s set out to identify some of the key leadership figures in… more

A Goal is a Dream With a Plan. And Other Fairy Tales.

Do, or do not—there is no ‘try.’ My mother never went to Europe. She talked about it, dreamed about it—even opened a travel agency at age 55. Never got there. She died 15 years later, having never achieved the goal.… more

2016 Economic Forecast

Market jitters that accompanied the new year are to be expected, experts say, but the prospects for moderate growth are still with us for 2016. The pieces are laid out on the economic chessboard for 2016—rising interest rates, slow growth… more