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• Supplement | HBS Case Collection | December 2018

  Amazon Acquires Whole Foods (B)

  Rory McDonald, Sarah Mehta and Shaye Roseman

  This short case, meant for pairing with HBS case 615-013 “AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market,” explores Amazon’s rationale for acquiring Whole Foods.

  Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry;

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  McDonald, Rory, Sarah Mehta, and Shaye Roseman. "Amazon Acquires Whole Foods (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 619-029, December 2018.  View Details

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• Article | Academy of Management Journal | December 2018

  Ideological Misfit? Political Affiliation and Employee Departure in the Private-Equity Industry

  Y. Sekou Bermiss and Rory McDonald

  Though organizations are increasingly active participants in the political realm, little research has investigated how an organization’s heightened focus on political ideology impacts employees. We address this gap by exploring how an individual’s political ideological misfit with an organization’s prevailing ideology impacts mobility. By tracking the movements of over 40,000 investment professionals in the U.S. private equity industry over 10 years, we investigate the consequences of the ideological misfit that arises when individuals’ political ideologies diverge substantially from the prevailing ideology of their firms. We hypothesize that ideological misfit increases the likelihood of mobility, though the effects vary with liberal/conservative ideological orientation. Polynomial regression analyses reveal that the fit relationship between individual and organizational political ideology deviates from the idealized congruence relationship that underlies prevailing theory. Through a supplemental, qualitative investigation, we propose some potential interpretations for our findings.

  Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Employees; Organizational Culture; Resignation and Termination; Financial Services Industry; United States;

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  Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald. "Ideological Misfit? Political Affiliation and Employee Departure in the Private-Equity Industry." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 6 (December 2018): 2182–2209.  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | March 2018 (Revised November 2018)

  Managing Religion in the Workplace: Abercrombie & Fitch and Masterpiece Cakeshop

  Derek van Bever

  Challenges related to managing religion in the workplace are on the rise, as are religious discrimination claims and monetary settlements, in the United States and around the world. This case examines two incidents of alleged religious discrimination that made their way to the U.S. Supreme Court, allowing students to explore the limits on the degree to which business owners and leaders can express their values through their companies’ operations and the extent to which companies should provide reasonable accommodation for employee faith practices.

  Keywords: religion; religious discrimination; first amendment; Religious Freedom Restoration Act; Business ethics; religion and business; management; EEOC; Ethics; Religion; Conflict Management; Retail Industry; United States;

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  van Bever, Derek. "Managing Religion in the Workplace: Abercrombie & Fitch and Masterpiece Cakeshop." Harvard Business School Case 318-127, March 2018. (Revised November 2018.)  View Details

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