Hospitals may also compete on quality, both quality of medical services and quality of hotel services and amenities.
By contrast, she says, competing on quality can work well with fixed prices.
From watches and jewelry to gourmet goods and fresh foods, the clubs are competing on quality as much as price.
As things stand, American carriers have little chance of competing on quality with the best of the rest of the world.
"I don't see this for a second competing with quality high schools, but for some people this could be an education they can't get," said John Etchemendy, Stanford's provost.
Instead of competing on quality, most compete on offers and optimize to fill open seats.
Like his schools, Gulen's other activities try to be self-financing, competing on quality.
The contract furniture market is now competing with quality and price points from stores like CB2, Z Gallerie, and IKEA.
So rather than compete on price, as so many others have done with a commoditized item, they have focused on competing on quality, on their innovative designs, and on innovation itself.
However, Renner said he's hoping to convince publishers to at least consider giving up on competing, lower-quality widgets entirely.
