The s-shaped growth curve is a staple of business strategy. It explains everything from product adoption to corporate growth—slow emergence, rapid acceleration, and eventually, a plateau.

Innovative new businesses that succeed in many other industries also follow the pattern of “hockey stick growth” – where revenue shoots up sharply in a curve shaped like a hockey stick ...

On a bar chart, high growth appears as a diagonal soaring upward, but it’s actually an S-curve–and you have to jump that curve to get to the next level and avoid the downward trajectory to ...

Q2 2019 was the first quarter since the financial crisis of 2008 in which America’s yield curve was inverted on average. Many economists see the link between gdp growth and yield curves as a ...

Kevin Drum waxes gloomy about the economic outlook for 2012, concluding “2012 may be a good year compared to 2011, but that’s grading on a curve.” The thing is, economic growth is all about ...