Frances Frei, the woman Uber Technologies Inc. brought on to help clean house in a punishing year, is leaving the company after eight months.
During Frei’s tenure, Uber conducted multiple workplace investigations into human-resources violations by staff and ousted Travis Kalanick as chief executive officer. Frei, the senior vice president for leadership and strategy, had been tapped to train executives on a program she designed as a professor at Harvard Business School. She was on the management committee running the company until the board selected Kalanick’s replacement, Dara Khosrowshahi.