Governments implementing managed competition have often found, to their surprise, that the public bidders tend to win.
"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.
President Bill Clinton made managed competition a central component of his effort to fundamentally remake the U.S. health care system.
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In a bid to create their own hybrid system, they are trying to supplement the good aspects of their traditional one with increased, but still managed, competition, as well as greater labor and capital mobility.
Even when pitted against a tournament veteran, novice BP managed to take down the competition.
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The design competition is being managed by Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC) and closes on 13 June.
He has sensible, if incremental, ideas about encouraging competition in the managed-care component of Medicare, and about giving Medicare administrators the authority to negotiate bulk discounts.
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Ministers responded by agreeing to introduce competition in a more managed and balanced way.
The bottom line is that Rackspace is a contender in a large and growing technology trend, with substantial competition, and has managed to maintain growth and earnings.
Actively managed funds are getting a lot of competition these days from passive vehicles like index funds and exchange- traded funds.
While the company has managed to beat out some Big Pharma competition like Pfizer thanks to its more diversified offering, it has been been challenged since 2009 by a number of recalls on products including Tylenol, Benadryl and Motrin.
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Greater competition and choice, albeit more managed now after the listening exercise, is clearly the way forward.
In many countries, weak competition allows too many underperforming, poorly managed firms to survive.
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But what helps HD stand out from competition is the cost leadership that HD had managed to retain.
The plan has been followed, more or less, as construction has stumbled forward over the past decade, but, after winning the competition for the master plan, Libeskind never managed to get a commission to design even a single building himself.
But it will face tough competition from BAE Systems, the only company that managed to be a key player in all of the originally conceived software-defined radios that would have been used by Army helicopters, ground vehicles and dismounted troops.
Another driver of better management practice is competition, which has the strongest effects on the worst managed companies.
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Rover was poorly managed, regardless of what the officials wish to say, and faced increasing competition from larger and better organised companies.
Those that have managed to build a textile industry, such as Lesotho and Mauritius, have suffered from Chinese competition and the end of the Multi-Fibre Agreement, which set quotas for exports from poor countries.
Apple, formerly the darling of the antitrust world as the plucky underdog that fought Microsoft and managed to survive the experience, is now perceived as a dominant firm with the ability to thwart competition.
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