Charles Duhigg

Charles Duhigg was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After graduating with a B.A. in History from Yale University, he worked in private equity and attended Harvard Business School. But by the time he earned his M.B.A. in 2003, he already knew that he wanted to become a journalist instead of continuing in business. For the next three years, he worked as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where he largely covered the Iraq War and the U.S. music industry. In 2006, he moved to The New York Times, where he did in-depth investigative reporting on issues like the dangerous working conditions at the factories that make Apple products in China and toxic tap water in the U.S. But he is still best known for The Power of Habit, which has sold millions of copies and spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list. He has won more than a dozen journalism awards for his work, including a Pulitzer Prize for his New York Times reporting on Apple in 2013. He has also spoken for audiences at companies like Google, Microsoft, and Bloomberg and appeared on popular shows like This American Life and The Colbert Report. He published his second book, Smarter Faster Better, in 2016. Since 2017, he has been a staff writer covering business for The New Yorker, and from 2019 to 2021, he also hosted Slate magazine’s “How To!” podcast.