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Larry Downes

Larry Downes

Lecturer
Adjunct Professor, School of Information Management and Systems
510-526-9547
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Academic Status: Full-time
Office Hours: Check with SIMS
Personal Homepage: http://www.thestrategymachine.com
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Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

 

Education

BA English/History/Computer Science, Northwestern University
JD University of Chicago Law School

 

Positions Held

At Haas since 2003

2003-present, Lecturer, Haas School of Business
2003-present, Adjunct Professor, SIMS, UC Berkeley
1999-2000 Sr. Lecturer, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
1997-2000 Sr. Lecturer Northwestern University Law School
1995-present Chairman, Larry Downes Consulting Group

 

External Services and Agreements

  • Series Editor, Management of Technology, Cambridge University Press, 2004
  • Columnist: CIO Insight, 2004, USA Today, 1999, The Industry Standard, 1999-2000
  • Board of Advisors, Eastman Chemical Co., 1999-2001
  • Fellow, Diamond Cluster International, 1998-2000
  • Chief Strategy Officer, Spyonit, 1999-2000
  • Founding Fellow, Cyberspace Law Institute
  • Member: State Bar of California, IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery

 

Current Research and Interests

  • Strategic Implications of Law and Regulation on the Innovation Process
  • Strategic planning during periods of industry transformation due to technological revolutions
  • Economic impact of information goods and services on industry structure
  • The development of an information supply chain and the role of electronic product codes

 

Selected Publications

  • “Brooks Adams Against the Railroads: The Approach of a Lawyer-Economist,” American Journal of Legal History, forthcoming. (Peer-reviewed journal)
  • “How to Manage Technology Without Shorting the Future,” Harvard Management Update, January 2003
  • “The Strategy Machine: Building Your Business One idea at a Time,” HarperBusiness, June 2002
  • “Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance,” Harvard Business School Press, 1998
  • “The End of Strategy,” Strategy and Leadership, Sept/Oct. 1998
  • “Electronic Communications and the Plain View Exception: More ‘Bad Physics,’” Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Spring, 1994

 

Teaching

  • MBA 290-T, Strategic Planning During Technology Revolutions (MOT-related course), Fall 2004
  • IS237, Intellectual Property Law, Fall 2004
  • IS205, Information Law and Policy, Spring 2005
  • IS290-2, Secrets of Consulting, Spring 2005

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