Draft:Utpal Dholakia

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{{AFC comment|1= HickoryOughtShirt?4, there is a Houston Chronicle article that mentions he is the George R Brown Professor of Marketing, but it is just a [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-houston-chronicle/172953509/ passing mention], a [https://news-network.rice.edu/blog/2015/12/02/rice-e-commerce-expert-available-to-comment-on-rise-of-online-holiday-shopping/#:~:text=Utpal%20Dholakia%2C%20the%20George%20R,of%20the%20holiday%20shopping%20season Rice Press release] mentions him by that title in 2015, and a [https://news2.rice.edu/2017/07/07/new-book-by-jones-schools-dholakia-is-guide-on-how-to-price-effectively/#:~:text=%E2%80%9COver%20the%20years%2C%20my%20students%2C,them%20are%20excellent%20and%20are Rice News article] calls him by that title as well. His alma mater also published [https://vjtialumni.com/f/mr-utpal-dholakia-7353 his bio ]. [https://news.rice.edu/news/2024/rice-business-celebrates-future-trailblazers-and-world-changers-commencement This] and [https://magazine.rice.edu/winter-2025/moment-us this] about him winning some university level award mentions that he is the chair. I couldn't find an article that was solely about him receiving the chair. Do any of these work?}}

{{AFC comment|1=He likely passes WP:NPROF but you need better references. The majority of references you have provided are self-written (or likely self written) like his school bio and CV. Are there no sources about him becoming chair? Or the endowed professorship? HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 17:26, 22 May 2025 (UTC)}}

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{{Infobox academic

| name = Utpal Dholakia

| nationality = American

| website = www.utpaldholakia.com

| education = BE in Industrial Engineering
MS in Industrial Engineering
MS in Cognitive Psychology
Ph.D. in Marketing

| alma_mater = Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute
Ohio State University
University of Michigan

}}

Utpal Dholakia is an Indian American researcher and professor. He is the George R. Brown Professor of Marketing at the Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University.{{Cite web|url=https://business.rice.edu/person/utpal-dholakia|title=Utpal Dholakia|date=April 7, 2016|website=Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University|access-date=May 20, 2025}}

Early life and education

Dholakia was born and raised in Bombay, India. After completing a BE in Industrial Engineering from the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute in 1993, he studied at Ohio State University. In 1994, he received an MS in Industrial Engineering from Ohio State University. He received an MS in Cognitive Psychology in 1997, followed by a Ph.D. in marketing in 1998, both from the University of Michigan.{{Cite web|url=https://business.rice.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/cv/Dholakia.pdf|title=CV|website=Rice University|access-date=May 20, 2025}}

Career

After completing his Ph.D., Dholakia joined M&T Bank as a research director and worked there until 2000 when he left to join University at Buffalo as an assistant professor of marketing. He left University at Buffalo in 2001 and joined Rice University as assistant professor of management, becoming associate professor in 2006. In 2007, he was endowed with the Jones School Distinguished Associate Professorship at Rice University and in 2008, the William S. Mackay Jr. and Verne F. Simons Distinguished Associate Professorship. He became a full professor at Rice University in 2011 and in 2015, he was awarded the George R. Brown Chair of Marketing.

In 2000, Dholakia founded Empyrean Insights, a marketing research, and consultancy firm.

Research and work

Dholakia's research concerns the general area of consumer motivation and the substantive/practice area of marketing issues related to the internet and social media and pricing. In the late 1990s and 2000s, his research focused on the topics of goal setting and goal striving, motivated decision making and impulsive choices. In the early 2010s, Dholakia's research focus shifted to the area of financial decision making by consumers using motivation and decision making lenses. During the same time, he also got involved in research involving marketing strategy and activities for startups and small and medium-sized businesses.{{cite web|url=https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6602180770|title=Utpal Dholakia|website=Scopus|access-date=May 20, 2025}}

Dholakia conducted studies of Groupon and other daily-deal promotions during between 2010 to 2014, studying the pros and cons of running these promotions on the financial performance of small businesses.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2010/10/01/groupon-good-for-you-bad-for-business/|title=Groupon: Good For You, Bad For Business?|first=Zack O'Malley|last=Greenburg|website=Forbes|access-date=May 20, 2025}}{{cite web |last1=Rubin |first1=Courtney |title=Study: One Third of Businesses Don't Profit from Groupon Deal |url=https://www.inc.com/news/articles/2010/10/groupon-unprofitable-for-a-third-of-businesses.html |website=Inc. |language=en}}

Selected publications

= Books =

{{cite book |title=How to Price Effectively: A Guide for Managers and Entrepreneurs |year=2017}}
{{cite book |title=Priced to Influence, Sell & Satisfy: Lessons from Behavioral Economics for Pricing Success |year=2019}}
{{cite book |title=Advanced Introduction to Digital Marketing |year=2022}}
{{cite book |title=Transparency in Business: An Integrative View |year=2023}}

= Articles =

{{cite journal |last1=Bagozzi |first1=R. P. |last2=Dholakia |first2=U. |year=1999 |title=Goal setting and goal striving in consumer behavior |journal=Journal of Marketing |volume=63 |issue=4_suppl1 |pages=19–32|doi=10.1177/00222429990634s104 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Dholakia |first1=U. M. |last2=Morwitz |first2=V. G. |year=2002 |title=The scope and persistence of mere-measurement effects: Evidence from a field study of customer satisfaction measurement |journal=Journal of Consumer Research |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=159–167|doi=10.1086/341568 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Algesheimer |first1=R. |last2=Dholakia |first2=U. M. |last3=Herrmann |first3=A. |year=2005 |title=The social influence of brand community: Evidence from European car clubs |journal=Journal of Marketing |volume=69 |issue=3 |pages=19–34|doi=10.1509/jmkg.69.3.19.66363 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Herzenstein |first1=M. |last2=Sonenshein |first2=S. |last3=Dholakia |first3=U. M. |year=2011 |title=Tell me a good story and I may lend you money: The role of narratives in peer-to-peer lending decisions |journal=Journal of Marketing Research |volume=48 |issue=SPL |pages=S138–S149|doi=10.1509/jmkr.48.SPL.S138 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Tam |first1=L. |last2=Dholakia |first2=U. |year=2014 |title=Saving in cycles: How to get people to save more money |journal=Psychological Science |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=531–537|doi=10.1177/0956797613512129 |pmid=24357616 }}
{{cite journal |last1=Dholakia |first1=U. |last2=Tam |first2=L. |last3=Yoon |first3=S. |last4=Wong |first4=N. |year=2016 |title=The ant and the grasshopper: understanding personal saving orientation of consumers |journal=Journal of Consumer Research |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=134–155|doi=10.1093/jcr/ucw004 }}

References

External links

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:Category:Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni

:Category:Ross School of Business alumni

:Category:Living people

:Category:Indian emigrants to the United States

:Category:American people of Gujarati descent

:Category:American people of Indian descent

:Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

:Category:University at Buffalo faculty

:Category:Gujarati people

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