Why does the following chart, which spans 50 years of data for the United States in the post World War 2 era, look the way it does? In this chart, we observe that the ratio of the U.S. National ...

A lot happened in 2025. Luckily, charts can help make sense of it all. Here are some of HBR’s most popular, topical, and important charts of the year. They cover a wobbly economy, an explosion of ...

We are in the second month of the New Year, but we will not fully close the books on 2024 till the ongoing Q4 earnings season is fully behind us. The focus lately has been on the Mag 7 results that ...

Rate cuts, stock surges, and Trump’s tariff threats are among the biggest forces shaping business and the economy. By Christine Zhang Despite a tumultuous U.S. presidential campaign and intensifying ...