Duff McDonald
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| notableworks = The Firm
Last Man Standing
The Golden Passport
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| years_active = 1995–present
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Duff McDonald is a Canadian American business journalist and writer based in New York.
Early life and education
McDonald was born in Toronto.{{cite web |title=Capitalisn't: The moral case against the MBA |url=https://review.chicagobooth.edu/strategy/2018/article/capitalisn-t-moral-case-against-mba |website=chicagobooth.edu |access-date=November 12, 2019 |date=February 15, 2018}} He attended University of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1992 and majored in Finance.{{cn|date=November 2019}}
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.{{cite news |last1=Barrett |first1=Paul |title=Book Review 'Last Man Standing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Barrett-t.html |access-date=November 12, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=October 29, 2009}} 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.{{cite web |title=Behind the singular mystique of McKinsey & Co. |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2013/09/25/behind-the-singular-mystique-of-mckinsey-co.html |website=cnbc.com |access-date=November 12, 2019 |date=September 25, 2013}}
In 2017, he published The Golden Passport which heavily criticized the Harvard Business School.{{cite news |author1=Andrew Ross Sorkin |title=Book Pins Corporate Greed on a Lust Bred at Harvard |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/business/dealbook/11-andrew-sorkin-harvard-business-school.html |access-date=November 12, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=April 10, 2017}}
Awards
- 2004: Canadian National Magazine Awards for Conrad's Fall{{cite web |url=http://freshfiction.com/author.php?id=22656 |title=Duff McDonald biography |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= |website= freshfiction.com |publisher= |access-date=2 October 2014}}
- Best Business Story (gold)
- Best Investigative Reporting (silver)
Works
- {{cite book |year=2009 |title=Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase |location=New York City |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1439109717}}
- {{cite book |year=2010 |title=The CEO: An Interactive Book |location=New York City |publisher=Gallery Books |isbn=978-1416900443 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/ceointeractivebo00burk }} (co-written with Owen Burke)
- {{cite book |year=2013 |title=The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey, The World's Most Controversial Management Consultancy |location=New York City |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1780743929}}
- The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite. Harper Business. 2017.
References
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External links
- {{Official website}}
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Category:American business and financial journalists
Category:American male journalists
Category:Canadian male journalists
Category:Canadian male non-fiction writers
Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni
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