Larry Downes
Business strategy author and analyst
Larry Downes is an internet industry analyst and author who writes on business strategy and technology. He co-wrote Pivot to the Future.
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Born 1959
About Larry Downes
Larry Downes is an analyst and author whose work centers on business strategy and information technology. His first book, Unleashing the Killer App, was a New York Times bestseller. He has also written The Strategy Machine and The Laws of Disruption, and co-wrote Big Bang Disruption. Pivot to the Future came out in 2019, co-authored with Omar Abbosh and Paul F. Nunes. It builds on research covering more than 1,300 global companies and includes over 200 case examples. Downes writes regularly for The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review and Forbes, and has testified before Congress on technology policy. He has taught at Northwestern University School of Law and the University of California, Berkeley. At Georgetown he has directed a project within the Center for Business and Public Policy. He earned his law degree at the University of Chicago and clerked for Judge Richard Posner.