Month: June 2010

MIP continue their rise in the rankings

25 June 2010

MIP Politecnico di Milano’s second  second place in two regattas in 2010 makes them the team to watch. Coming second in the Alumni Business Cup at their first attempt,  means that they rise six places to 4th place, from only those two regattas.

Columbia continue their descent from the table by not turning up to defend 2009’s 3rd place.  They drop seven places to 18th.

At the top, LBS improve their points tally by one, after their victory compared with second place in 2009. Insead’s points worsen by one, coming in 5th rather than 4th. Warwick remain in third, with an 8th place – but they are now just a point ahead of MIP.

HEC climb 5 places to 8=, Vienna are up 6 to 16th=, Harvard return to the league with their 11th place.

Sadly Kingston, a long- time competitor at both Cranfield and the ABC, drop out of the league. They’ve not competed since the ABC in 2009.

School Cranfield Solent ’09 Bocconi Sta Margharita ’09 LBS GMT Athens ABC La Ciotat Total Number of Regattas Position Change
LBS 1 11 4 1 17 4 1 =
Insead 24 4 1 5 34 3 2 =
Warwick 13 6 15 8 42 4 3 =
MIP Milano 24 15 2 2 43 2 4 +6
Kellogg/WHU 24 2 10 10 46 3 5 -1
Cranfield 2 15 21 13 51 1 6 -1
Smurfit 3 15 21 13 52 1 7 -1
Bocconi 24 10 5 13 52 2 8= -1
HEC 24 1 21 6 52 2 8= +5
Rotterdam 24 12 3 13 52 2 8= -1 Continue reading “MIP continue their rise in the rankings”

London Business School take the ABC prize

22 June 2010
IMD take the start on day 1

After three years in a row coming in second place, and for the first time since they originally entered the event in 1993,  London Business School won the Alumni Business Cup regatta in La Ciotat, France.

The ABC website is here: http://www.alumnibusinesscup.org/abca/Home.html

The 18th ABC regatta took place in La Ciotat and Cassis, near Marseilles in the South of France. Racing took place over three days in “Grand Surprise” 30- ft day racing yachts on the 17th, 18th and 19th June. There were five technical windward- leeward races and two coastal races, plus a practice race. Twelve teams of MBA Alumni from as many schools competed for the trophy.

The regatta was the most evenly competed for years, with five crews battling it out near the top of the rankings: LBS, last- year’s winners IMD, 2007 winners Vienna, 2006 winners Insead and first- time entrants MIP, fresh from their second place in the Global MBA trophy in Athens.

Vienna, for the second time in three years, won the regatta “on the water”, but had a poor result with the on- shore games, meaning that LBS and MIP overtook them in the overall results. Continue reading “London Business School take the ABC prize”