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

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Early life and education

McDonald was born in Toronto. He attended

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

from 1988 to 1992 and majored in Finance.

Career

His first job after university was at

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...

. By 2009, he published ''Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase'' which was a biography on

Jamie Dimon James Dimon (; born March 13, 1956) is an American billionaire businessman and banker who has been the chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase – the largest of the big four American banks – since 2005. Dimon was previously on ...

. 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 Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

Awards

*2004:

Canadian National Magazine Awards The National Media Awards Foundation (NMAF) is a Canadian charity whose mission is to recognize excellence in the content and creation of Canadian magazines and Canadian digital publishing through two annual awards programs: the National Magazine ...

for Conrad's Fall **Best Business Story (gold) **Best Investigative Reporting (silver)

Works

* * (co-written with Owen Burke) * * '' The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite''.

Harper Business HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp ...

. 2017.

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* Living people American business and financial journalists American male journalists Canadian male journalists Canadian male non-fiction writers University of Pennsylvania alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-writer-stub