A survey of regional baby-name trends through the years.
The economy has acted on population trends through migration, marriages and births.
But traditional M.B.A. programs continue to respond to new trends through a Band-Aid approach, by appending a course.
But increasingly, they view big political and social trends through the lenses of risk-management and profit opportunity.
Its primary founder was Gustav von Schmoller, who hoped to identify cultural trends through extensive historical inquiry.
Marjorie Schlesinger Deane, who advised retail stores on fashion trends through an influential publication called the Tobe Report, died on Saturday at her home in Manhattan.
Labour-market trends through the 19th and 20th centuries show surprising continuity, according to Lawrence Katz of Harvard University and Robert Margo of Boston University.
He has steered this supertanker of an opera company through the turbulence of Mr. Levine's shifting commitments, through major changes in repertory and staging trends, through a recession and the complaints of crazed prima donnas and lawsuits by dead donors.
In an annual exercise, I put my optimism on trial by updating my graphs to see whether the happy trends through the early 2000s have continued, backtracked or been erased altogether.
"We did see improving sales trends through the quarter in former May Company stores and in home-related merchandise categories," the chief executive, Terry J. Lundgren, said in a statement.
Now, using computer models that predict climate trends through the 2050s, researchers say that vegetation in the Arctic could increase up to 50 percent in the next decade, far faster than previously thought.
