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Larry Downes is an Internet industry analyst and author on business strategies and information technology. Downes is best known for his book with Chunka Mui, ''Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance'' which focuses on the potential of products and services for dramatically changing business. ''Unleashing the Killer App'' sold over 200,000 copies and was named by the ''Wall Street Journal'' one of the five most important books on business and the Internet ever published. Downes is also the author of ''The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces that Govern Business and Life in the Digital Age.'' His most recent book, co-authored with Paul Nunes, is ''Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation.'' Downes writes regularly for a variety of publications, including ''The Washington Post'', ''Harvard Business Review,'' ''Forbes'' and CNet about such issues as net neutrality, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and disruptive innovation generally. He has testified frequently before Congress on technology policy. On February 15, 2011, he testified in front of Congress against the FCC's net neutrality rules, the so-called "Open Internet" rule, which prohibits blocking of lawful content and bans various forms of discrimination in the handling of specific data packets. He is a critic of over-regulation and an advocate of increased competition. His writings have appeared in various newspapers and magazines around the world, including ''Forbes'', CNet, ''USA Today'', ''Harvard Business Review'', ''Wired'', and the ''Harvard Journal of Law and Technology''. Downes held a faculty appointment at the Northwestern University School of Law from 1998-2001 where he taught courses on The Law of Technology. He also held a faculty appointment at the Booth School of Business from 1999-2000. He was an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 2003-2006. From 2006-2010, he was a nonresident Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. From 2014, he was appointed a Project Director at the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy's Evolution of Regulation and Innovation project, housed at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He also serves as Research Fellow for the Accenture Institute for High Performance. Downes received his BA from Northwestern University in 1980 with Honors in English, History, and Computer Science. He received his J.D. with High Honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993. From 1993-1994, he clerked for Judge Richard Posner in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He was also a consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and McKinsey & Co from 1980–1990 and was raised in Oak Park, Michigan. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Larry Downes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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