The distinction between arithmetic and exponential growth is crucial to an understanding of the nature of growth. Arithmetic growth takes place when a constant amount is being added, as when a child puts a dollar a week in a piggy-bank. Although the...

In mathematics, exponential growth (or geometric growth) occurs when the growth rate of a function is always proportional to the function's current size. Such growth is said to follow an exponential law; the simple-exponential growth model is known as...

It's not every company that can go from $7 million in revenues to more than $1.7 billion in 10 years, but that's precisely what Shire Pharmaceuticals, whose hub lies in Wayne, Pa., accomplished in the last decade. The key to its success? Seizing opportunities...

AN INTERESTING ARTICLE in Business Week covers the recent overbuilding of stores and malls (Reference 1). The article references fairly reliable industry numbers that show that the US retail industry added floor space at a rate that is roughly double the population in...

Access to life-extending HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries has improved during the past three years, but new infections still dramatically outpace efforts to bring treatment to patients, health officials said Monday.Three years ago, fewer than 300,000 people in the developing world were receiving the anti-retroviral...

Access to life-extending HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries has improved during the past three years, but new infections still dramatically outpace efforts to bring treatment to patients, health officials said Monday.Three years ago, fewer than 300,000 people in the developing world were receiving the anti-retroviral...