The Conference Board Review • 1st April 2014 Holy Ship! Commercial shipping is bigger than ever—literally.
The Conference Board Review • 1st October 2013 The Cost of Economic Success It’s not what the boy pictured here is doIng that’s so troublesome. It’s more what he’s not doIng. He’s not in school learning geometry, or science, or English, or anything else beyond how to work hard for daily survival.
The Conference Board Review • 1st July 2013 Turning an Old Leaf The war on drugs is going up in smoke. Each year, the Mexican government burns tons of seized marijuana, sometimes creating public ceremonies around bonfires to reassure the public that authorities are making progress to fight the nation’s rampant illegal-drug trade.
The Conference Board Review • 1st April 2013 The Dark Side of Growth What would a planet with no electricity look like? NBC’s drama Revolution answers this question. With no power, a sense of powerlessness grips society—you know, like how you feel when your cell-phone battery dies. Sort of.
The Conference Board Review • 1st July 2007 To Boldly Go Where Few Ads Have Gone Before You see about 3,000 ads per day. But these are the ones you'll remember.
The Conference Board Review • 1st September 2008 Evolution of the B-Card Companies look for ways to maximize—or escape—their identities.
The Conference Board Review • 1st January 2013 Where Do You Want to Go? IndIa, the world’s largest democracy, is takIng an unusually rocky road toward becomIng one of the largest economIes, over numerous speed bumps.
The Conference Board Review • 1st October 2012 What Does an African Look Like? IncreasIngly, ordinary AfrIcans resemble ordinary African-AmerIcans—from around 2009. The sub-Saharan region imports about a quarter of the world’s used clothing, much of it from the United States.
The Conference Board Review • 1st July 2012 An Industry Steeling Itself Steel workers in Russia are nervous. Now that Vladimir Putin is back in the Kremlin, some may be wondering: Will I have to resort to growing my own potatoes? Again?
The Conference Board Review • 1st April 2012 A Heavy Burden Twelve billion. That’s the number of bricks that Bangladesh produces each year. Unfortunately, the bricks are important not only for what they build but for what they destroy: lives, families, and the environment.
The Conference Board Review • 1st January 2012 A Different Diveristy Every multinational that issues an annual "We're Going Green" report offers lip service to protecting global biodiversity. But the pharmaceutical industry is genuinely worried about the future.
The Conference Board Review • 1st October 2011 Electronic Graveyard Whatever happened to your old computer? How about that clunky TV you used to own? Labels tell us the origin of products but can say nothing about where your gadgets might end up.
The Conference Board Review • 1st July 2011 Remember Your First Job? Chances are, it was much different than that of 14-year-old Sunil.
The Conference Board Review • 1st April 2011 How Many Milligrams? Salt makes just about everything taste a little better, at an annual cost of some 150,000 lives in the United States alone.
The Conference Board Review • 1st April 2010 Thinking Inside the Box What to do with 17 million shipping containers and not enough products to fill them? Fill them with people.
The Conference Board Review • 1st January 2010 Fill 'Er Up, Eventually This is what happened when cities across China began converting their taxi fleets from regular gas to natural gas.
The Conference Board Review • 1st October 2009 A Golden Opportunity As more Americans trade their gold for cash, are companies taking advantage of them?
The Conference Board Review • 1st July 2009 No Pot of Gold People in Jakarta waited five hours to buy a pair of shoes. Crocs. Yes, Crocs.
The Conference Board Review • 1st May 2009 Danger in the Woods There's a good chance that your table is crafted from environmental damage, corruption, money laundering, organized crime, and human-rights abuses.
The Conference Board Review • 1st March 2009 Dwelling on the Dead Manila's most impoverished residents wind up squatting atop the city's main garbage dump.
