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LARRY DOWNES
UNLEASHING THE KILLER APP
Larry Downes is a consultant and speaker on developing business strategies in the digital age. He is a fellow with Diamond Technology Partners and Diamond Exchange, an interdisciplinary roundtable for senior executives working to develop digital strategies. Downes holds teaching appointments at both The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Northwestern University School of Law.
He is co-author of the Business Week and New York Times business bestseller, “Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance” (Harvard Business School Press), which has sold over 100,000 copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. The book describes how executives in high technology and low technology industries alike can harness the power of e?commerce and provides twelve design principles for developing such “killer apps.” His clients include leaders in travel, financial services, chemicals, publishing and telecommunications industries.
His previous work includes large-scale systems integration and development, technology research and strategy, and corporate law for Silicon Valley companies. Mr. Downes was Director of Andersen Consulting’s Center for Strategic Technology Research and a Principal in the Silicon Valley office of McKinsey & Co.
Mr. Downes holds a B.A. from Northwestern University, and received his J.D.Magna Cum Laude from the University of Chicago, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics and a member of the Law Review. From 1993-1994, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Richard A. Posner, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is a founding fellow of the Cyberspace Law Institute and a member of the State Bar of California.
He has written for a variety of publications, including The American Banker, CIO, The American Scholar, Strategy & Leadership, Business 2.0, Wired, Context, USA Today and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.
