California Management Review
California Management Review is a premier academic management journal published at UC Berkeley
by Heather Whiteman
This case centers on technologist and founder Alex Furman of the genetics testing company Invitae. At Invitae, Furman reimagined his human resources (HR) department by building a piece of custom people analytics software. The case discusses some of the use cases of this approach and asks whether Furman should spin the project off, thus introducing the bigger question of whether a ‘home-grown’ technology system can continue to grow within a single company or whether it requires more dedicated resources to succeed.
Pub Date: January 1, 2023
Discipline: Human Resource Management
Subjects: Accountability, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Ethics, Software, Teams, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Entrepreneurship
Product #: B6025-PDF-ENG
Industry: Software Publishing, Technology, Genomics
Geography: United States
Length: 10 page(s)
