August 2014 – The MBA Global Sailing League

Win at Cranfield helps LBS climb to the top of the league

25 August 2014

London Business School’s first place at the Cranfield regatta helps them climb one place to the top of the 2014 MBA sailing league. Insead, who were top after their victory at the ABC regatta and their third place in Athens drop seven places to 8th, because they did not participate in England.

Skolkovo, who kicked the 2014 season off in first place are now down to 10th.

Kellogg/WHU’s third place at Cranfield along with their placings at the ABC and the GMT mean that they take second place in the league. Cranfield’s second place in the Solent means that they are propelled to third overall.

The top 5 is made up by HEC and Henley, both of whom have competed in two regattas this year.

School	LBS GMT Athens	ABC Les Embiez	Cran- field	TOTAL	Post’n	No of Reg- attas	change
LBS	2	5	1	8	1	3	+1
Kellogg/WHU	6	4	3	13	2	3	+4
Cranfield	9	7	2	18	3	1	+8
HEC/Trium	9	2	7	18	4	2	+3
Henley	4	7	8	19	5	2	+2 Continue reading “Win at Cranfield helps LBS climb to the top of the league”

HEC shoot up the rankings

25 August 2014

HEC, participating at the Cranfield regatta for the first time in many years, shot up the rankings from 19th to 4th, with a creditable 7th place. HEC have now sailed at 3 of the 5 regattas in the last 12 months.

The rankings take all the results in league regattas in the last 12 months into account.

London Business School’s first place at the Cranfield Regatta sees them stay top of the rankings, where they’ve been since the RSM regatta in 2012.

INSEAD, by not competing at Cranfield for the second year running, racked up a massive 20 points, and stay second in the rankings despite having won both the RSM regatta and the ABC in the last 12 months.

Kellogg/WHU remain third, with their fine third place at Cranfield.

Other climbers in the rankings include BAth, up 7 places to 8= after coming 4th at Cranfield, MIP up 10 places to 12th, having missed Cranfield in 2013 and Aston in the table for the first time at 17=.

School	RSM, Lely- stad	Bocconi Sta Mar- gharita	LBS GMT Athens	ABC Ile Des Embiez	Cran- field Solent	Total	No of Reg- attas	Pos’n	Change
LBS	3	16	2	5	1	27	5	1	=
Insead	1	7	3	1	20	32	4	2	=
Kellogg/WHU	5	18	6	4	3	36	4	3	=
HEC/Trium	7	15	9	2	7	40	3	4	+15
Bocconi	7	4	3	7	20	41	2	5	-1 Continue reading “HEC shoot up the rankings”

London Business School Win Cranfield Regatta

25 August 2014

London Business School retained the Cranfield Regatta trophy in fine style, winning all five races to score a perfect four points (including discard). The rankings leaders brought their A team and their A game to the regatta, following their disappointing performance at the ABC in France.

Home team Cranfield 3 came second with three second places in the last three races, while third- in- the-rankings Kellogg/WHU brought home third, coming second in the first two races.

Bath and Cranfield 1 filled out the top five.

The Cranfield Regatta, now in its 23rd year, is the longest – running of the MBA regattas, and one of the best attended: 19 boats competed for the trophy this year (albeit with 8 from the home school, and one representing State Street Corp.)

the racing took place on the Solent, the stretch of water between the South coast of England and the Isle of Wight. Day one started with winds at 20 knots gusting into the high 20s, leading to poling out of the Genoa on the downwinds. Spinnakers came out by the end of the day, and Sunday was perfect Spinnaker- flying weather. Continue reading “London Business School Win Cranfield Regatta”