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Duff McDonald is a Canadian American business journalist and writer based in New York. McDonald was born in Toronto. He attended the University of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1992 and majored in Finance. 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 of 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. 

Duff McDonald is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business, Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase, and The Golden Passport and the coauthor of The CEO, a satire. A contributing editor at the New York Observer, he has also written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York, Esquire, Fortune, Businessweek, GQ, Wired, Time, Newsweek, and other publications. He lives in New York.

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