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About Drew Gold

Drew Gold, associate professor of management, has been appointed the polling institute’s executive director. Dr. Gold earned his undergraduate degree in finance from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in strategy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining Saint Leo’s Donald R. Tapia School of Business, he recently served on the faculty at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business in its management science department for four years. Dr. Gold has worked with companies of various sizes for the last 20 years, advising them on a variety of strategic, technology, and management-related issues.

Gifts, gift cards or cash? Givers and receivers disagree

People might be conflicted about what form a gift should take. And it makes a big difference whether you are giving or receiving a gift, according to a new national poll conducted by the Saint Leo University Polling Institute.

People were presented with the hypothetical example of a gift of $25 in value. When asked if they would prefer to give […]

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Despite the digital world, Americans still favor snail mail holiday greetings

You might think in this era of constant emails and social media postings that old-style paper Christmas or holiday cards and formatted letters summarizing a family’s year might be peculiarities. Not so. In a modern age, our behavior still trends toward the traditional.

The Saint Leo University poll found 43 percent of respondents send stock cards, and another 22 percent send […]

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Americans favor device free family dinner, but will they follow through?

Americans hate the proliferation of mobile phones and tablets at the dinner table, according to a new survey by the Saint Leo University Polling Institute. Whether they will do something about it is another question.

According to the Saint Leo poll, 84 percent of Americans say they agree with a policy of not allowing smart phones and other handheld devices at […]

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Paper Holiday Cards and Letters Persist in Popularity – As Do Cash Gifts

While We’re Fond of Tradition, Online Shopping Has Plenty of Fans
You might think in this era of constant emails and social media postings that old-style paper Christmas or holiday cards and formatted letters summarizing a family’s year might be peculiarities. Not so. In a modern age, our behavior still trends toward the traditional.

That’s just one of the findings about America’s […]

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Mom: “Don’t You Dare Look at Your Phone at the Table!”

“No Technology at the Table” Policies Popular in Theory
If mom takes your phone away before Christmas dinner this year, don’t be surprised.

Americans hate the proliferation of mobile phones and tablets at the dinner table, according to a new survey by the Saint Leo University Polling Institute. Whether they will do something about it is another question.

According to the Saint Leo […]

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Floridians agree Congress is failing, according to new poll

Floridians may be divided on their political preferences for president and governor but they all agree they don’t like Congress. Congress’s approval rating is just 11 percent, with 83 percent disapproving of the job Congress is doing. Remarkably, in polling 310 Floridians 40 and older, the survey failed to find a single one who said they “strongly approve” of Congress.

“Congressional […]

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