"The old managed competition idea from the Clinton years is still a pretty good one, " he says.
The irony is the old managed competition idea from the Clinton years is still a pretty good one.
With the exception of a few vocal libertarians (whose opposition in this instance to competition and market-based decision-making seems inexplicable, not to say bizarre), the idea of fuel competition seems to be one upon which we can all agree.
Cash-strapped households in Belgium might rather like the idea that competition can lower their bills.
When you approach the idea of competition with an open mind, it suddenly moves from terrifying to exciting.
Second, unless France embraces the idea of competition, the creed of egalitarianism will drag down quality for everybody.
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"The future of France in the family of great nations depends on our capacity for initiative - a value totally at variance with an enarque culture based on zero risk and suspicious of any idea of competition or power-sharing, " they said.
San Francisco-based Kaggle is a successful startup based around the idea of competition: Companies send data to Kaggle, which provides them to teams of data scientists who compete to come up with the best predictive models for that data, based on historical results.
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The idea for a competition-based business first came to founder and CEO Anil Rathi, when he was still a student.
Based on the idea of perfect competition, where the market is omniscient, this code is as unenforceable as the insider trading rules.
The very idea of real competition clearly terrifies him and many others.
As consumers get used to this idea, price competition on the web, which has so far been less energetic than expected, may intensify.
He's created classes for men called "BROga, " and while he's not on the Olympic yoga bandwagon, he sees little wrong with the idea of friendly competition.
Some people would like the idea of no competition so they can keep the position for the rest of their lives, but no, there has to be a kind of danger all the time.
At a time when the EU is trying to persuade reluctant countries to open up their energy markets to the fierce winds of competition and abandon the French idea of "national champions", Gazprom is a very vivid example that such allegedly old-fashioned out-of-date thinking can work dramatically well for the country concerned.
The idea is to create competition for students between these universities and those charging a higher fee.
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In addition teachers, engineers and executive mentors support the teams directly (in person or by utilizing a social network) as the students progress through the idea-research-implementation competition phases.
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While he knows that the recipe for brand success includes having a simple idea and executing it with discipline and laser focus, he and his team also know that another rule for brand success is to look hard, very hard, at what the competition is doing before establishing a differentiating idea on which to stake a claim.
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The idea that Cablevision is resisting its competition is nonsense, attorney Peter Bee tells residents.
At the end of the week, students will be deliver a business idea during a final Rocket Pitch Competition.
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Not my idea of noble, free market competition.
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In the former mode, the idea is to battle your way through the competition to become Champion of Springfield.
Moving also requires shifting institutional thought, especially the idea in education that physical exercise is in competition with academics for a slot in the curriculum instead of an essential ingredient of academic performance that begins with increasing general physical activity.
But here's an idea: Tear up those contracts, negotiated when global competition didn't much matter, and start over.
The question for many now is whether that type of growth can continue absent idea-generator Jobs, new products and with intensifying competition from Research In Motion ( RIMM), Samsung ( SSNHY), and others.
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But even as the innovative idea has caught on among deal-hungry consumers, Groupon faces growing competition from rivals such as LivingSocial.
He pitched the idea of using game mechanics to motivate behavior to a Princeton Business Plan competition and in the summer of 2008, he left to start SCVNGR based on that plan.
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It got 8, 300 submissions, says Michael Collins, boss of the Big Idea Group, a start-up firm that helped Staples to organise its competition.
The idea was to help reduce a gaping Federal deficit while at the same time spurring competition in wireless services.
The idea was recently awarded the top prize in the " High Line for London" competition run by the UK's Landscape Institute in partnership with the Mayor of London and the Garden Museum.
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