The real world systems offering personal accounts as an alternative to Social Security all suffered some losses in the financial crisis, but none of them failed and most of the losses have since been recovered, with workers continuing to enjoy far greater long term returns and benefits from the fully funded and invested personal accounts.
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So games can be used to prepare employees, students and citizens for a world where systems are becoming ever more entwined.
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Only then will the consequences of Enron's failure be clear for the firms with which it had dealings, and for the American and world financial systems as a whole.
The rich world food production systems depend upon the agricultural commodity giants like Cargill, ADM, Bunge and Dreyfus.
And at his new employer, which tests and repairs power-generation systems world-wide, Mr. King says he applies many of the same electrical skills he used during his 10 years in the Navy.
The potential for GPS systems to track traffic snarls will be on show at the World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in New York this week, where one of two systems that went into operation earlier this month will be showcased.
Here are two credible threats to global systems: a massive cyber attack that could spread to the rest of world and interfere with SCADA systems everywhere and carbon whiskers that could short out power transmission systems.
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In 2000, when a Harvard Medical School professor working at the World Health Organization developed a complicated formula to rate the quality and fairness of national health care systems around the world, the richest nation on earth ranked thirty-seventh.
The result is that most of the world's traditional systems end up being remarkably similar.
In the modern world, new information systems are at the heart of all management processes and organizational activities.
Founded in 1983 to market a minicomputer data cartridge backup drive, Advanced Digital has emerged as a world leader in open systems storage for PCs.
According to a number of recent articles, this ubiquitous and all-powerful bug is the worst crisis ever to face the world's information systems.
More than a physical commodity, gold is a symbol, harking back to the times when the world's monetary systems were based on it.
Unprecedented efforts by central bankers around the world to stabilize financial systems with easy money policies and other untested policy measures have fueled strong rebounds.
If our MBA students expect to become successful business leaders in the future, then understanding the relationship between business activities, the natural world, and social systems is crucial.
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Michael Dunne, Research VP at analyst firm Gartner, gave a refreshingly deep view into the world of sales automation systems, software designed particularly from the viewpoint of the sales process.
Wherever we live we need to feel connected to the oceans, as they are our umbilical cord to life, driving the world's weather systems, ensuring we can take our next sip of water and our next breath.
If Mr Sarbanes's proposal becomes law, without too many concessions along the way, America may find that it has gone from having one of the world's laxest systems of audit regulation to having one of the most rigorous.
MIAMI, Florida and BARCELONA, Spain - Feb. 27, 2012 - At the IAB Annual Leadership Summit and Mobile World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today unveiled the industry's first fully integrated video technology platform, code named Project Primetime, to enable smooth, TV-like experiences for ad-supported videos across Web-connected devices.
"Microsoft seems to envision a world in which one giant company not only controls the systems that drive most computers around the world but also the security that protects those computers from viruses and other online threats, " the advert said.
The 2012 report from the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked childcare systems across the world.
They also say the world's food production systems must be made resilient to climate change.
"In the very best systems across the world there will always be avoidable deaths, " he added.
Syria, they say, has one of the most sophisticated, Russian-made air-defence systems in the world.
He said the maintenance of the world's eco-systems was directly linked to the economic well-being of nations.
One of more than 500 bike-sharing systems around the world, New York's is the biggest in the United States.
Owens Corning is a world leader in building materials systems and composite solutions.
Yet the corporate world continues to emphasize control systems, lean processes, and compliance and in many instances, rightly so.
Rivals have toiled for years to wrest the market away from Microsoft, whose Windows operating systems dominate the world's computers.
Incongruously, the ancient City Wall wraps itself seamlessly around the metropolis, one of the largest ancient military defensive systems in the world.
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