Editors’ Note

As our editorial team read through the past year’s worth of Harvard Business Review to select the articles for this volume, perhaps the most interesting part of the proceeding was seeing how a group of seemingly disparate articles actually overlapped and wove together. Of course some themes were the result of deliberate effort; but accidental commonalities and contrasts perhaps even better represent the interests of our authors and our readers. This year we saw organizations focused on their physical spaces, and we’ve included two articles from our issue on workplaces. But one of them, tellingly, also addresses the issue of privacy in the virtual world, which dovetails with questions raised by the growing internet of things and ...

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