How Jagmohan Dalmiya Commercialized Cricket (Part 6)

SM: From where you sit, where do you think cricket needs to go next? JD: Nobody can say for sure, as it is still very early. I see a lot of countries like India and Pakistan where cricket is moving fast towards club cricket, like league football.

How Jagmohan Dalmiya Commercialized Cricket (Part 5)

SM: When you were president of the ICC, what were the main areas you wanted to improve? JD: Everything. Coaching, umpiring, and everything associated with the game, and I needed the money to do that.

How Jagmohan Dalmiya Commercialized Cricket (Part 4)

SM: Can you talk about 1993 to 2008? JD: That was a great time. It seemed that every day the situation improved.

How Jagmohan Dalmiya Commercialized Cricket (Part 3)

SM: Let’s go back to the finance issues. There was tremendous revenue potential in telecast rights. JD: There were, but we had to fight the Broadcasting Ministry for those rights. Our stance was simple. We believed the ministry was taking all of our money away from us by denying us the opportunity to own our

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How Jagmohan Dalmiya Commercialized Cricket (Part 1)

These days, sports like football, baseball, basketball, and soccer are huge commercial ecosystems. In 2006, Nimbus Communications bought digital media rights for Indian cricket for $612 million in a four-year global deal, underscoring cricket’s status gain in the big-money world of sports marketing. Cricket, however, owes its commercial maturity to Jagmohan Dalmiya. Read ‘Cricket Reaches

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Design in the 21st Century: A Coffee with Barry Katz (Part 8)

SM: To me 20th Century art looks like the ‘anti-beauty’. Is that reasonable? Today I look at the products people are lapping up and they are beautiful objects. Are we returning to appreciating beauty? BK: I am not going to disagree with you completely, although I will refrain a bit.

Design in the 21st Century: A Coffee with Barry Katz (Part 7)

SM: What is your interpretation of what is going on in Steve Job’s head that allows him to do something really interesting and leapfrogging with design every time? BK: I don’t think it is every time. Apple has cultivated a mystique of the ‘magic Job’s touch’. SM: He did look outside of America to get

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Design in the 21st Century: A Coffee with Barry Katz (Part 6)

SM: Previously we talked about cell phones and the problems that have developed over time with their hazard to driving. Could the Mendini analysis be applied to cell phones? BK: The Harvard Medical School has concluded that cell phone drivers kill 2400 people a year in the United States which is serious. Several states have

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