Duff McDonald

Duff McDonald is a Canadian American business journalist and writer based in New York.

Early life and education

McDonald was born in Toronto. He attended University of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1992 and majored in Finance.

Career

His first job after university was at Goldman Sachs. By 2009, he published Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase which was a biography on Jamie Dimon. Later, he authored “The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business” which took a critical eye to the role and reputation of McKinsey & Co.

In 2017, he published The Golden Passport which heavily criticized the Harvard Business School.

Awards

• 2004: Canadian National Magazine Awards for Conrad's Fall
• Best Business Story (gold)
• Best Investigative Reporting (silver)

Works

• (co-written with Owen Burke)
• '. Harper Business. 2017.