Larry Downes

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1.

Big Bang Disruption

Harvard Business Review, March, 2013, pp. 44-56
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2021
Larry Downes and Paul Nunes
Larry Downes Consulting Group and Accenture Institute for High Performance
Downloads 4,585 (3,702)
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disruptive innovation, industrial organization, technological change

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GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain

Harvard Business Review, April 9, 2018
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 20 Aug 2018
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 425 (119,682)
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GDPR, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Licensing, Information, Search, Creepy Factor

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A Rational Response to the Privacy 'Crisis'

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A Rational Response to the Privacy 'Crisis'

The Cato Institute, Policy Analysis #716, January 7, 2013
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2013
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
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privacy, intellectual property, licensing, information, search, creepy factor

A Rational Response to the Privacy 'Crisis'

Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 716, January 7, 2013
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Mar 2013
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 82 (518,153)

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online privacy protection, federal internet privacy laws, us privacy rights, eu privacy rights, social media privacy, Facebook, Google

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Microsoft, Google, and a New Era of Antitrust

Harvard Business Review, Feb. 2023
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 13 Mar 2023
Blair Levin and Larry Downes
Brookings Institution and Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 213 (247,001)

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antitrust, regulation, Microsoft, technology industries

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Unscrambling the FCC's Net Neutrality Order: Preserving the Open Internet, but Which One?

20 Comm Law Conspectus 83 (2011)
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Oct 2012
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 187 (276,715)

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FCC, net neutrality, open Internet, administrative law, broadband, Internet

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How to Understand the EU-U.S. Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review, 2015
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 08 Feb 2016
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 178 (288,969)
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broadband, investment, regulation, unbundling, adoption

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Why Google Fiber is High-Speed Internet's Most Successful Failure

Harvard Business Review, 2018, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3279662
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 29 Nov 2018
Blair Levin and Larry Downes
Independent and Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 170 (300,686)
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Broadband, Investment, Regulation, 5G, Gigabit, Smart Cities, Fiber, Infrastructure

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Open Innovation, Chinese Style

Boao Review, July, 2016, pp. 41-44, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 2838899
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 18 Sep 2016
Larry Downes, Paul Nunes and Serena Qui
Larry Downes Consulting Group, Accenture Institute for High Performance and Accenture Institute for High Performance
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open innovation, China, Haier

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The Internet after COVID-19: Will we Mind the Gaps?

Aspen Institute Communications and Culture White Papers (2020)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 30 Apr 2020
Blair Levin and Larry Downes
Brookings Institution and Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 145 (343,334)
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broadband, Internet, digital, ecosystem, transparency, security, digital divide

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Big Bang Disruption Comes to China

Boao Review, October, 2015, pp. 41-44
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 02 Jan 2016
Larry Downes and Paul Nunes
Larry Downes Consulting Group and Accenture Institute for High Performance
Downloads 141 (351,074)
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China, disruptive innovation, strategic planning

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The FCC's Unstructured Role in Transaction Reviews

CPI Antitrust Chronicle Oct. 2012 (1)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 18 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2013
Larry Downes and Geoffrey A. Manne
Larry Downes Consulting Group and International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE)
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FCC, antitrust, merger, spectrum, mobile, telecommunications, spectrum screen, HHI, merger review, spectrum license transfer

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The Evolution of Innovation and the Evolution of Regulation: Emerging Tensions and Emerging Opportunities in Communications

CommLaw Conspectus - Journal of Communications Law and Policy, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 26 Dec 2014
Larry Downes and John W. Mayo
Larry Downes Consulting Group and Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business
Downloads 107 (431,341)

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communications, Internet, net neutrality, disruption, innovation, smartphone

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Fewer, Faster, Smarter

Democracy Journal, Fall, 2015, pp. 39-51
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 02 Jan 2016
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 91 (481,079)

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regulation of technology, disruptive innovation, collective action, regulatory capture

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Title II Reclassification

17 Progress on Point 15 (Progress and Freedom Foundation, August, 2010)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 17 Oct 2013
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 79 (524,135)

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FCC, broadband, Internet, reclassification, Title II, regulation, Universal Service, state and local regualtion, copyright, terrorism, privacy

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On Internet Regulation, the FCC Goes Back to the Future

Forbes, March 12, 2018
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 20 Aug 2018
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 78 (528,084)
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FCC, broadband, net neutrality, public utility, municipal broadband, privacy, set-top box, prison telephone,enterprise, special access, business data services, rate regulation, competition, broadband

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The Identification and Measurement of Market Power and Entry Barriers in Markets Featuring 'Platform' Businesses

Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3335289
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 07 Mar 2019
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 77 (532,075)

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antitrust, FTC, platform business, market power, barriers to entry, exclusionary conduct, predatory conduct, consumer protection

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Who Really Stopped SOPA, and Why?

David Moon, Patrick Ruffini and David Segal, editors, Hacking Politics (OR Books 2013)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 30 Aug 2016
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 75 (540,188)
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SOPA, PIPA, copyright, Internet, MPAA, lobbying, regulation

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How Will the Biden Administration Approach Tech Regulation?

MIT Sloan Management Review, January 19, 2021
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 02 Mar 2021
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 70 (561,163)

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disruptive innovation, technology, transformation, policy, Internet, industrial organization, technological change

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Unlocking Pandora's Set-Top Box: The FCC Flirts with Disaster, Again

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Apr 2016
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 64 (588,044)

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FCC, set-top box, video navigation, regulatory, AllVid, DSTAC, CableCARD

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Internet of Things: How to Avoid Short-Term Errors and Ensure Lasting Adoption

Marketing Intelligence Review, 10(2), 30-35
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 02 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2019
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 51 (655,311)

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Internet of Things, Privacy, Security, Standards, 5G, Marketing

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A Market Approach to Privacy Policy

Berin Szoka and Adam Marcus, Editors, The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet (TechFreedom 2010)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Aug 2016
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 47 (678,561)

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privacy, market, information, transaction costs

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What Companies Must Do Now That Better Is Also Cheaper

The European Business Review, November-December 2015, pp 4649
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 02 Jan 2016
Paul Nunes and Larry Downes
Accenture Institute for High Performance and Larry Downes Consulting Group
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disruptive innovation, transaction costs, deflation, platforms, marginal costs, cross-subsidization

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Investing in America's Broadband Infrastructure: Exploring Ways to Reduce Barriers to Deployment

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 19 Aug 2018
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 44 (697,260)
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FCC, broadband, enterprise, 5G, fiber, competition, digital divide, rural, subsidy, zoning, fixed wireless, pole attachments

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Oops, They Did it Again: What We Didn't Learn from U.S. v. Microsoft

CPI Antitrust Chronicle, October, 2011 (2)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 21 Oct 2012
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
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antitrust, AT&T, T-Mobile, Microsoft, technology industries

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Competition and Consumer Protection Issues in Communication, Information, and Media Technology Networks

Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3335287
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 07 Mar 2019
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
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FTC, broadband, consumer protection, Internet, net neutrality, communications, media

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Electronic Communications and the Plain View Exception: More 'Bad Physics'

7 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 239 (1994)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Oct 2013
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
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electronic surveillance, fourth amendment, electronic communications, plain view doctrine, wiretapping, Title III

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The Economics of Information: from Dismal Science to Strange Tales

Berin Szoka and Adam Marcus, Editors, The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet (TechFreedom 2010).
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Aug 2016
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 34 (766,540)

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Information, non-rivalrous goods, transaction costs, Coasean economics

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The Losing Case for Special Access Regulation

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Jan 2016
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
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FCC, special acccess, enterprise communications, regulation, regulatory capture

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The FCC Noses Under the Broadband Tent Again

Regulation, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2016, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 2792341
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 13 Jun 2016
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 25 (839,031)

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FCC, broadband, enterprise, special access, business data services, rate regulation, competition, broadband

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Comment: In the Matter of Restoring Internet Freedom

Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 3335922
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 07 Mar 2019
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
Downloads 24 (847,867)
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net neutrality, broadband, mobile, law of disruption, big bang disruption, innovation

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Finding Your Company's Second Act

Harvard Business Review, Jan, 2018
Posted: 19 Aug 2018
Larry Downes and Paul Nunes
Larry Downes Consulting Group and Accenture Institute for High Performance

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disruptive innovation, industrial organization, technological change

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Flexible Use Spectrum Licensing and Coase's Solution for Interference

Posted: 01 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2017
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group

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Spectrum, interference, FCC, innovation, Coase

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Managing the Big Bang: The Regulator's Dilemma

Democracy, A Journal of Ideas, Issue 34, Fall, 2014
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 15 Jul 2015
Larry Downes
Larry Downes Consulting Group
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Regulation, innovation, disruption, technology, net neutrality