Service Marketing and Innovation
Social Media Marketing
Consumer Psychology and Decision Making
Niharika is an assistant professor in the marketing area at SPJIMR. She has a PhD. from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, and a master’s degree from IIT Bombay. She also holds a PGP certification in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from the University of Texas at Austin.
She has over six years of experience, having previously served as an assistant professor at IMI New Delhi and O.P. Jindal Global University. She has also worked with leading consulting firms such as Deloitte and Evalueserve, managing business research projects for Fortune 500 companies.
Niharika’s research has been recognised by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in the form of a full-term doctoral fellowship and has been published in reputed ABDC and Scopus-listed journals. Her research primarily focuses on consumer psychology and emotions. She is particularly interested in developing innovative approaches for services marketing and product recommendation on digital platforms. She has also presented research papers at prestigious international conferences, including those organised by ORSI, PAN IIM, NASMEI, AIMS, and SKEMA Business School.
As an educator, she is passionate about fostering critical thinking and creativity in her students. She offers courses in marketing analytics, social media marketing, marketing research, healthcare marketing and consumer behaviour, leveraging her multidisciplinary expertise to prepare students for real-world marketing challenges.
Ph.D., 2022
Focus: Marketing
PGP, 2023
Specialisation: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
M.Tech
Major: Biomedical Engineering
B.Tech
Service Marketing and Innovation
Social Media Marketing
Consumer Psychology and Decision Making
Gupta, N., & Verma, H. V. (2024). Product recommendation in internet business: an integrated approach of fuzzy sets and multiple attribute decision making. Electronic Commerce Research, 24(4), 2665-2691. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-022-09644-7
Gupta, N., & Verma, H. V. (2024). Other customers’ service failure and recovery encounters: qualitative exploration. Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration, 16(1), 148-169. https://doi.org/10.1108/APJBA-09-2021-0462
Gupta, N., & Verma, H. V. (2021). Other customers in shared servicescape: A systematic review and future research agenda. Journal of Services Research, 21(2), 189-239. https://www.proquest.com/openview/efb656161c26cc563368d1095ca5725b/1?cbl=28391&pq-origsite=gscholar
MADM for Recommender Systems in E-commerce – A Fuzzy Approach with Linguistic Information, 10th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence & 2023-ORSI, IISc Bangalore, India (December 2023). https://mgmt.iisc.ac.in/orsi-ka/
Multiple Attribute Decision Making under Fuzzy Environment – An application in Online Recommender System, 14th International Conference on Multiple Objective Programming and Goal Programming, SKEMA Business School, France (December 2021). https://easychair.org/cfp/MOPGP2021
Third Party Customers’ Reactions to Service Failure and Recovery Encounters, 17th AIMS International Conference on Management, IIM Kozhikode, India (January 2020). https://www.aims-international.org/aims17/
A Model of Third-Party Customers’ Reactions to Online Service Recovery via Social Media, Fifth PAN-IIM World Management Conference, IIM Lucknow, India (December 2017)
Understanding Third Party Customers’ Justice Perceptions and Behavioural Reactions to Service Failure and Recovery, 11th NASMEI International Marketing Conference, Great Lakes Institute of Management, India (December 2017). https://www.greatlakes.edu.in/chennai/events/11th-great-lakes-nasmei-international-marketing-conference
Factors Affecting Customer Willingness to Participate in a Co-Recovery, MARCON 2016, International Marketing Conference, IIM Calcutta, India (December 2016)
Gupta, N., & Verma, H. V. (2024). Witnessing Justice in Action: How Emotions, Moral Identity and Commitment Shape Third-Party Reactions to Service Recovery. Journal of Services Marketing, Accepted for Publication.
Marketing Analytics
Social Media Marketing
Marketing Technologies (MarTech)
Services Marketing
Consumer Behaviour
Awarded full-term doctoral fellowship from the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), 2019-2020
Assistant Professor, International Management Institute (IMI) New Delhi, April 2024 – March 2025
Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Business School, O.P. Jindal University, July 2022 – April 2024
Senior Research Associate
Business Technology Analyst