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Tamara J. Erickson

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Books

Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation

Workforce Crisis:
How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent
Ken Dychtwald,
Tamara J. Erickson,
Robert Morison
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Third Generation R & D: Managing the Link to Corporate Strategy
Philip A. Roussel,
Kamal N. Saad,
Tamara J. Erickson
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Articles

Breakthrough Ideas for 2008: "Task, Not Time"
February 2008
Harvard Business Review

Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams
November 2007
Harvard Business Review

Bridging Faultlines in Diverse Teams
Summer 2007
MIT Sloan Management Review

What It Means to Work Here
March 2007
Harvard Business Review

Managing Middlescence
March 2006
Harvard Business Review

It's Time to Retire Retirement
March 2004
Harvard Business Review
Winner of the 2004 McKinsey Award

Bio: Tammy Erickson
Tamara J. Erickson (Tammy) is both a respected, McKinsey Award-winning author and popular and engaging storyteller. Her compelling views of the future are based on extensive research on changing demographics and employee values and, most recently, on how successful organizations work. Well-grounded and academically rigorous, fundamentally optimistic, Tammy's work discerns and describes interesting trends in our future and provides actionable counsel to help both organizations and individuals prepare today. She is a member of nGenera Inc.

Tammy has co-authored four Harvard Business Review articles: "It's Time to Retire Retirement" (March 2004), winner of the McKinsey Award, "Managing Middlescence" (March 2006), "What It Means to Work Here," (March 2007), and "Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams," (November 2007), as well as the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent, published by Harvard Business School Press (2006). She has also co-authored an MIT Sloan Management Review article, "Bridging Faultlines in Diverse Teams," (Summer 2007). She also authored one of Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough Ideas for 2008, "Task, Not Time," (February 2008).

Tammy is currently writing a trilogy of books on how individuals in specific generations can excel in today's workplace. Her first, Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation, was released earlier this year. Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work will be available in the fall of 2008. The third, for Generation X, will be available next year.

Tammy's popular weekly blog "Across the Ages" is available on HBSP Online.

The research initiatives she and colleagues have undertaken include Demography is De$tiny, exploring the implications of current demographic changes on human resource practices, and The New Employee/Employer Equation, developing new and powerful approaches to increasing employee engagement through segmentation.

Her most recent research, Cooperative Advantage, done in collaboration with a team at London Business School, explored the working practices of over 50 teams in 15 multi-nationals, representing the most extensive academically-grounded study of industry-based team working ever conducted.

She is also a respected authority on technology and its implications for business and coauthor of the book Third Generation R&D: Managing the Link to Corporate Strategy, a widely accepted guide to making technology investments and managing innovative organizations.

Tammy is a former member of the Boards of Directors of two Fortune 500 companies -- PerkinElmer, Inc., and Allergan, Inc. She has served on the Audit, Compensation and Governanace Comittees

Tammy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago and a MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration where she was the recipient of the James Thomas Chirurg Fellowship.

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