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Why Cleveland Clinic Shares Its Outcomes Data with the World

Harvard Business Review

In 2004, CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove extended the expectation of measuring and publicly reporting outcomes to other clinical areas. When possible, we compare ourselves with recognized benchmarks or simply with ourselves over time. Even if we cannot observe a meaningful trend or benchmark comparison, we report our outcomes anyway.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

It was supposed to provoke deeper thinking about capitalism and its future, but many early adopters understood the concept as a balancing act, adopting a trade-off mentality. Worse, we have conspicuously failed to benchmark progress across these options, on the basis of their real-world impact and performance.

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