Solving the world's critical environmental problems and creating sustainable ways of operating means radically changing course.
For the have-not universities, however, to continue operating means relying on millions of dollars in debt, funding from their main campus and student fees.
At one level, this is a straightforward risk probability: more time operating means more chances for something to go wrong.
"The way the system currently operates means that higher-deprivation schools are much more likely to get poor quality teachers".
The scale and power with which Facebook operates means the site would effectively be training users to outsource their judgment to a computerised alternative.
But once the full measure of behavior hits home, you know that the way that human nature operates means that he could take some kind of action".
Any change, such as a downturn in the economy or a structural change in the industry in which it operates, means the firm will have to respond and perhaps shift, at least to some degree, how it operates.
Moreover, the hub system that Northwest (and others) operate means Northwest has 75% or more of the market at each of its U.S. hubs.
The corporate structures and performance management frameworks within which they operate mean that doctors and nurses and managers may not speak.
Louise Casey, who was hired last year by the then communities secretary, Eric Pickles, to inspect the council, launched a scathing attack on the council saying the system it operated meant it was "geared towards" abuse.
In each case, the institutional, historical, and political constraints under which a President must operate mean that the solutions — or, if there are no solutions, the ameliorations — are doomed to be nearly as messy as the problems.
