Thomas E. Cavanagh

Thomas E. Cavanagh is a Senior Research Associate in Global Corporate Citizenship at The Conference Board. He was the author of Corporate Security Management: Organization and Spending Since 9/11, a study which received widespread media coverage in 2003. While at The Conference Board, he has also authored Community Connections: Strategic Partnerships in the Digital Industries, a study of corporate partnerships to overcome the “digital divide,” and Corporate Community Development: Meeting the Measurement Challenge, a study of the returns on corporate investments in community economic development projects. He was the lead author of After September 11th: The Challenge Facing American Business and of The Conference Board’s series of Executive Action Reports on Corporate Security in a Time of Crisis.

Publications by Thomas E. Cavanagh

Executive Action Report

• Coordinating Business Preparedness: Managing Public and Private Efforts
  30 April, 2008
• Benchmarking Business Preparedness: Plans, Procedures, and Implementation of Standards
  30 April, 2008
• Security Metrics as a Management Tool
  30 April, 2008
• The Business Benefits of Security: Making the Case in Mid-Market Companies
  17 April, 2007
• Threat, Vulnerability, and Consequence: A Framework for Managing Security
  29 June, 2006
• Making the Business Case for Security
  27 June, 2006
• Security in Mid-Market Companies: Tackling the Challenge
  04 November, 2004
• Cops, Geeks, and Bean Counters: The Clashing Cultures of Corporate Security
  21 September, 2004
• Security Practices ... Security in Mid-Market Companies: The View From the Top
  01 July, 2004
• Managing Corporate Security in Mid-Markets
  22 September, 2003
• Managing Corporate Security: Patterns of Organization
  09 July, 2003
• Managing Corporate Security: Patterns of Spending
  09 July, 2003
• Rebuilding Lower Manhattan: The Need for Cross-Sector Collaboration
  14 December, 2001
• Corporate Security in a Time of Crisis: Management Challenges
  12 November, 2001
• Corporate Security in a Time of Crisis: Bioterrorism
  12 November, 2001
• Corporate Security in a Time of Crisis: Protecting IT
  12 November, 2001
• Corporate Security in a Time of Crisis: Concerns for International Business Travelers
  12 November, 2001
• Corporate Security in a Time of Crisis: Online Security Resources
  12 November, 2001

Research Report

• Bouncing Back: How Companies Approach Resilience
  06 April, 2011
• Corporate Governance and Business Preparedness
  17 March, 2011
• Preparedness in the Private Sector
  30 December, 2008
• Navigating Risk — The Business Case for Security
  25 October, 2006
• The Measure of Success: Evaluating Corporate Citizenship Performance
  30 August, 2005
• Corporate Security Measures and Practices
  11 March, 2005
• Corporate Security Management: Organization and Spending Since 9/11
  23 July, 2003
• Corporate Community Development: Meeting the Measurement Challenge
  17 January, 2002
• Community Connections: Strategic Partnerships in the Digital Industries
  15 November, 1999