Francoise CHEVALIER holds a PhD from HEC Paris Business School and the French HDR qualification as a supervisor of doctoral research. She is associate professor in the Management and Human Resources department at HEC. Francoise teaches Master, Doctorate and Executive Education courses and has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. Her research concerns Management Innovation, Organizational Change, Leadership and Human Resources Management, Creativity and Pedagogy. She specializes in qualitative, comparative, longitudinal research methods, and several of the HEC PhD dissertations supervised by Francoise have won national and international prizes. Her most recent publications include: Gestion du changement: vers un management polyphonique(2021), La recherche enracinee en management: contextes nouveaux et perspectives nouvelles en Afrique (2020), Research Methods for the DBA (2019). Currently Francoise is a member of the editorial board of Gerer et Comprendre and writes for academic and professional journals.