Final Results 2nd annual RSM Regatta 2011:

1. Jeroen Gijzen (RSM)
2. Ina Spiess (Kelogg/WHU)
3. Klaus Rasmussen (LBS)
4. Chris Best (Warwick)
5. Johannes Francisco (IE)
6. Peter Cortie (RSM)
7. Johannes Vriesendorp (RSM)
8. Wendy Frigge (RSM)
9. Yannis Pagoulatos (RSM)

As predicted, by sailing well at Cranfield, where neither had participated in 2010,  The Insead and Bocconi sailing teams power to the top of the MBA Sailing rankings. The rankings are calculated from the regatta results over the last 12 months, and are the best answer to the question “Who’s best ?”

By winning the Cranfield regatta, Insead climb to the top of the rankings, where they lead by two points from Bocconi , who were third at Cranfield.

London Business School trail by 13 points in third, badly affected by their poor showings in Sta Margharita and Rhodes, while Cranfield and MIP round out the top 5.

Previously top ranked Warwick drop out of the top 5 altogether with their 22 in the Cranfield regatta.

Glasgow make a strong showing, at 8 after their first MBA Sailing regatta. Aberdeen, Ashridge, Portsmounth and Oxford Said drop out of the rankings, having not competed since Cranfield 2010.

It looks like 2011 is Insead’s year.  With just one scoring event left in the competition, they are 6 points ahead of their nearest rivals, LBS, and so would need to do very badly at the Bocconi regatta to miss out on the MBA Sailing League trophy.

Insead’s consistent top four placings in all three regattas, brought them the first place. The win at Cranfield has bought them the large gap between first and second that they’ll need to defend in Italy in September.

Bocconi’s third place in the Solent sees them overtake MIP and Chicago. MIP hold onto 4th, while Cranfield’s second spot in the only regatta in which they’ve competed this year sees them fifth.

Global MBA Trophy winners, Chicago drop out of the top ten because they didn’t compete at Cranfield,  while Warwick fall to 11th. Glasgow, Rotterdam, Manchester, Henly and Leeds are big climbers.

Kit Glover’s Insead team were one of only two crews to manage to pull together consistently good results to bring home the Cranfield Regatta trophy.

With a win, two seconds a 3 and a 4, they beat a regatta field where a different boat won each race, and where only Insead and second placed Cranfield 13 managed to avoid finishing outside of the top 10 in each race.

In the 20th edition of this regatta, 36 crews from 15 business schools made for dramatic starts and big differences in performances.

The regatta was made up five races over two days in a fleet of identical Benneteau F40s. The crews spent Friday night in Port Solent, and Saturday night in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Continue reading “Insead consistency brings home the Cranfield Regatta”

Cranfield have released the results of the 20th Cranfield MBA regatta.   They are posted here and reproduced below.

Insead and Bocconi return to the Cranfield regatta, and one or the other will finish the weekend at the top of the MBA world rankings if they can manage 7th place or better.

This is the 20th edition of the Cranfield regatta, which has taken place in the Solent, on England’s South Coast every year since the early 90s. The regatta will have a massive 36 boats lining up at the start of the races, 17 of whom from the host school Cranfield. The regatta is made up of up to five races over two days in a fleet of identical Benneteau F40s. The crews will be spending Friday night in Port Solent, and Saturday night in Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

Insead are first in the 2011 MBA sailing league after two events, but have not attended the Cranfield regatta in the last few years. As a result, they have lost out in their league placing and world rankings. Any schools that do not attend a regatta are scored one more than the number of participants in the regatta. Last year, this meant that Insead  and Bocconi got 37 points for missing Cranfield, which pushed them right out of the running. Continue reading “Insead or Bocconi poised to top the rankings at Cranfield”

Warwick have managed to hold onto their top ranking in the MBA Sailing league for another month, despite not attending the ABC regatta in Venice last week.  The rankings are based on schools’ results in the previous 12 months, and include all four of the MBA league regattas.

Warwick are only just ahead, however: They have the same points total as ABC winners London Business School, but lead because they have attended fewer regattas to get the same score.

Rotterdam‘s result at the ABC, which they did not attend in 2010 means that they climb from 8th to 5th in the rankings. Otherwise the top 5 stay the same:  Cranfield and Manchester 3rd and 4th.

Columbia are big climbers, rising 9 spots to 13. Athens are welcomed back to the rankings, while HEC and Kellogg/WHU both drop four places.

Insead are the early leaders of the MBA Sailing League.  After two events, their consistency (Finishing 4th in Rhodes and 3rd in Venice) puts them top of the table on 7 points.

Second place is jointly held by ABC champions, LBS and MIP (Politecnico di Milano)on 10 points. LBS’s 9th place in their own Global MBA Trophy regatta dragging their score down, while MIP’s 7th in their hosted regatta, the ABC, meant they could not climb above the British school.Rounding out the top 5 are Chicago, who went from first in Rhodes to last in Venice and Bocconi, who did not attend the ABC, but came second in Greece.

Top- ranked Warwick, who also didn’t participate at the ABC are lying 7th, while Columbia, IMD, Athens and Vienna (WU) have their first scoring regatta.

London Business School raced hard on the final day to retain the Alumni Business Cup Trophy, held in the waters off Venice Lido last week.  The Alumni Business Cup, hosted this year by MIP Politecnico Di Milano is one of the premier events in the MBA Sailing league calendar, with the focus very much on the racing: up to 12 races over three days in a fleet of identical Salona 37 yachts.

The participants were: Insead (with three boats), Athens, Chicago Booth, fresh from their victory at the Global MBA Trophy in Rhodes, Columbia, a joint HEC – Insead boat, a joint IE- Rotterdam boat,  IMD, LBS, MIP and WU, Vienna. Continue reading “London Business School Retain ABC Trophy”