After one regatta, the league is only really a report on how that regatta went, but for the sake of completeness, here’s the 2011 league as it stands in May 2011:

By steadily accumulating good results, and making sure they attend every regatta in the season, the team from Warwick Business School have finally knocked London Business School from the top of  the MBA Sailing league rankings.  With a respectible 5th place, at the GMT regatta in Rhodes, compared to London‘s 9th, the Warwick crew are now five points ahead in the rankings.

This is the first time that LBS have fallen from the top of the rankings since they were first compiled at the end of the 2009 season.

The MBA Sailing League rankings are calculated by adding together a team’s scores in each of the four MBA sailing regattas that make up the season. Following the 2011 Global MBA Trophy in Rhodes, this comprises the ABC 2010 in La Ciotat, the Cranfield Regatta 2010 in the Solent, the Rolex MBA’s Cup 2010 in Santa Margharita Ligure, and the GMT 2011. Continue reading “Warwick Go top of the MBA Sailing League Rankings”

This years  Global MBA Trophy took place in the Aegean sea, off the Island of  Rhodos. The world heritage site was the background for the regatta of 16 Sailing boats. The field was smaller compared to last year, but nevertheless much stronger. London Business School showed up with 3 teams, while RSM came with 2 teams to defend their title as last years division A winners.  Last year’s overall champions, Insead, had two teams, as did Bocconi,  while Chicago Booth came to the island, with 3 teams. MIP, last year’s runners- up aimed to  improve their spot in the MBA league ranking, having been excluded from the Rolex Bocconi MBA’s Cup to save a spot for an international competitor. Warwick and Trium (NYU/LSE/HEC) made up the fleet. Altogether a strong showing at the Global MBA Trophy again this year.

The wind on both days created perfect racing conditions . The Chicago Booth team were dominant: winning all three of the A division races on Saturday, and defending this strong position with a 3rd and a 2nd position on Sunday. In the overall regatta, their performance was equally impressive. Continue reading “Chicago power to a win in Rhodes”

A year ago, Warwick came away from the Global MBA Trophy in Athens with a 15th place, and dropped to third in the league.  A year on, they have a chance of overtaking London Business School to go top if they can beat them on the waters off Rhodes.

Third- place in the league Cranfield will miss out on having the same chance.

Meanwhile, Insead and MIP are strongly fancied this year: If they can do well here, repeat their 2010 results in the ABC cup and put on some sort of a result at Cranfield, then the Sailing League competition could be wide open.

The Global MBA Trophy, now in its sixth edition moves from its long time home in the waters off Piraeus, Athens to the historic and beautiful island of Rhodes in the Dodecanese.  The regatta village opens on Thursday 28th, with racing starting on Friday 29th, and the prize – giving and gala dinner on Saturday 30th.

Crucial to the MBA sailing league, the regatta moves for the first time to a two – division format, meaning that there are only 10 boats competing for the trophy,  and so only 10 points on offer to the participants and crucially, only 11 points to those who miss out.

The full list of participants, along with their current league position, and number of points (low points is best) before Rhodes is shown below:

Cranfield, Bocconi rise,  Rotterdam fall down the rankings.

An all British podium:

1 London Business School

2. Warwick Business School

3. Cranfield Business School

Despite their very poor showing at the Bocconi regatta, London Business School had enough in the bag to be able to weather their 18th place and still end 2010 as MBA SAiling League champions.

Bocconi’s first place improved on their 2009 result of 10th, and means that they rise six places into the top 10, lying 8th overall.  Cranfield’s second, along with their 5th in the Cranfield regatta means that they rise five places to take a spot on the end of year podium.

Warwick’s steady performances through the year, and their 5th place in Sta Margharita earn them second overall.

On the downside, Rotterdam give up their second place, and drop to 4th as their 19th place in Italy wrecks their chances.

Continue reading “London Business School are 2010 MBA Sailing League Champions.”

SDA Bocconi sailing Club’s team, led by Federico Albano won the final match race against Cranfield to win the 2010 MBAs cup in the waters off Santa Margharita Ligure and Portofino. Match racing made its first entry into MBA sailing this regatta as a novel way of reconciling two fleets of boats for the 19 crews who took part in the “A” regatta.  The top two from each fleet progressed to the match racing stage, with Bocconi emerging champions, Cranfield from the UK second, Canadian school Sauder third and the US/German Kellogg team fourth. A further 28 boats competed in a “B” regatta, sailing without spinnakers, making a total of 47 boats sailing, and an incredibly crowded harbour!

Continue reading “Bocconi take full advantage of home waters”

The sheer size of the Cranfield regatta fleet means that teams that choose not to participate need to do incredibly well in the rest of the season to feature near the top of the league.  Insead were not on the Solent in July, while Warwick, LBS and RSM were, and so they tumble from second to 4th place.

This was Rotterdam Erasmus School of Management’s first entry into the Cranfield Regatta, and their eighth place, along with their great showing in Athens means that they climb up to second overall, jumping a massive 7 places. They are ahead of Warwick because their 36 points come from just three regattas compared to Warwick’s four.

London Business School’s second place consolidates their lead in the MBA sailing league, a full 18 points ahead of Rotterdam. Warwick’s 7th place at Cranfield is an improvement of six places compared to their 2009 result and means that they also overtake Insead to stay in third place.

The teams that finished near the top of the Cranfield table make the biggest jumps in the rankings. The winners, Exeter, improved on 21st place in 2009, and are now in 5th place, up 18.  Manchester’s 4th place in their first event in the MBA season places them 7th,  Henly climb 9 places to 11th, while Portsmouth, Imperial, Aberdeen, Leeds and Ashridge also place in the league table for the first time.

Big losers were MIP Milano and Kellogg/WHU who both drop 5 places as crews who did Cranfield climb above them.

The league says farewell to Bradford, London Cass, Cambridge Judge and GISMA, who did not return to the Cranfield regatta this year.

Exeter Business School won the highly desirable new Cranfield Regatta trophy with a very impressive performance,  winning  three races out of the five

sailed, and discarding a third place.

This was the 19th annual Cranfield regatta, held on the Solent in Sunsail’s fleet of identical Jeanneau Sunfast 37s.

Business Schools from all over the UK took part, along with teams from Rotterdam School of Management, and Smurfitt, Dublin. In all, there were a record 36 boats participating, 17 from Cranfield and 19 from other schools.

It was a much more competitive event than for the last couple of years, with strong crews from London Business School, Manchester and Smurfitt battling it out for second place, and Rotterdam, Warwick, Henly,

Portsmouth and a couple of Cranfield boats being there or thereabouts. Continue reading “Exeter Reign over record Cranfield fleet”

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.

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”