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Arthur Sterngold was born on January 3, 1951, in Oak Park, MI, just outside of Detroit, to Henry and Levona Sterngold. He moved to South Florida when he was six and spent the rest of his youth living in the Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach areas. After graduating from Nova High School in 1969, Sterngold earned a B.A. in economics from Princeton University, an M.B.A. in marketing and nonprofit management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in sociology and survey methods from The Pennsylvania State University. He currently is an associate professor and Chair of the Business Administration Department at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA, where he teaches courses on marketing, information systems and marketing research, and where he also teaches a Management Scholars Seminar about controversial issues involving business, government and society for the college’s Institute for Management Studies.

Before pursuing an academic career, Sterngold worked in advertising, politics and economic development. He was the first director of the Economic Development Council of Georgia under the leadership of former Governor Zell Miller, and he served as an economic planner for government agencies in Florida and Georgia. After earning his MBA, Professor Sterngold worked for NH&S Advertising in Chicago on the Betty Crocker account (General Mills).

Sterngold has published over a dozen articles in scholarly and professional journals, including two articles in Planning, the flagship publication of the American Planning Association: "Battling Bias: Beware of Surveys that Overstate People's Attitudes, Activities and Future Behavior" (July 2005) and "The Economic Impact and Feasibility Game" (February 2005). Sterngold’s article, "Do Economic Impact Studies Misrepresent the Benefits of Nonprofit Arts and Cultural Organizations?" appeared in the Fall 2004 issue of the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, while his paper, "Confronting Plagiarism: How Conventional Teaching Invites Cyber-cheating" was published in the Summer 2004 issue of Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. He has also published articles in Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Consumer Affairs and the Journal of Marketing Education.

Sterngold has served as a marketing consultant to several business and nonprofit clients, including McDonald's Corporation, Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies), Woodlands Bank, Pennsylvania College of Technology, City of Williamsport, SEDA-Council of Governments, Centre County Visitors Bureau, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the Centre Region Planning Commission.

Sterngold lives in Muncy, PA, with his wife and two teenage sons, where he is a member of the Curriculum Review Committee for the Muncy School District and a certified PIAA and USSF soccer referee.