Larry Downes

Larry Downes is an expert on developing business strategies in an age of constant technological and legal disruption.

Downes is the author of the New York Times and Business Week business blockbuster, "Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance," which has sold nearly 200,000 copies. This pivotal work was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five most important books ever published on business and technology.

His latest book, “Pivot to the Future," co-authored with Omar Abbosh and Paul Nunes, details a dramatic new approach to strategy and execution for businesses facing constant technological disruption. His other publications include "Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in an Age of Devastating Innovation," "The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age," and "The Strategy Machine." Each of these works explores different facets of innovation and its impact on traditional business models.

Downes writes regularly for The Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Washington Post, and CNET, covering the intersection of technology, politics, and business. He also contributes to a variety of other prestigious publications, including The New York Times, USA Today, Inc., The Economist, Wired, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Recode, The Hill, Congressional Quarterly, Slate, The European Business Review, The Boao Review, and The San Francisco Chronicle.

He has held faculty appointments at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and the University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he served as Associate Dean of the School of Information. From 2010-2019, he served as project director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. From 2006-2010, he was a nonresident Fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society. Additionally, Downes is a Research Fellow with the Accenture Institute for High Performance, conducting extensive research into the challenges and strategies of dealing with disruptive innovations in various industries.