London Business School are top of the MBA sailing rankings after the RSM regatta in Lemmer, the Netherlands.

They take over the top of the table with their third place, overtaking Insead who scored seventh.

Second place Rotterdam climb to 12th from 22nd. Winners Kellogg/WHU climb to 15th equal from 26th. Continue reading “London Business School top the rankings”

The team from WHU/Kellogg, with representation on board from Columbia won the 3rd Rotterdam School of Management regatta in Lemmer, the Netherlands on the weekend of 24 – 26th August.

This is the first victory in the MBA sailing league for the WHU/Kellogg team, who’ve been participating in MBA regattas for over 5 years. Local RSM EMBA 2013 team came in second with LBS in third place. Continue reading “WHU/Kellogg win in Lemmer”

The team from SDA Bocconi sailed away with the Global MBA Trophy in Piraeus, (Athens) Greece.

The regatta was sailed for the first time in one – design sport boats, the Platu 25, provided by the Platu 25 Class association, rather than the cruising boats usually used. The boats are normally sailed by their owners or by professional sailors on the match- racing tour, and were challenging and great fun to sail.

Bocconi spent the regatta at the head of the fleet along with the boats from MIP and INSEAD:  The three shared the first three places in all six raceswith Bocconi’s four first places and a third sealing the win with 7 points.  INSEAD and MIP both ended the regatta on 10 points with 3 seconds, a third and a first. MIP getting second place on countback by coming second in the last race. Continue reading “Bocconi Triumph in Greece”

The 2012 MBA Sailing League Calendar is now confirmed

1. The Global MBA Trophy Regatta in Athens

27 – 29 April.  Details here

2. The Alumni Business Cup (ABC) Regatta in La Trinite Sur Mer, France

6 – 9 June. Details here

3. The Cranfield Regatta in The Solent, England

6 – 8 July. Details here

4. The RSM Regatta,in Lemmer, The Netherlands

24 – 26 August. Details here

5. The Rolex MBAs Cup, in Santa Margharita Ligure, Italy

27 – 30 September.  Details here

Manchester Business School scored a perfect 5 points to win the first ever MBA winter regatta, winning five of the six races.

The MBA winter regatta was held at Marina Rubicon, Playa Blanca, Lanzerote on 13- 14 January 2012.  It was organised by Brendan Laing of London Business School. Teams raced six windward- leeward races in the bay off Marina Rubicon in strong winds (25 – 30 knots for most of the weekend). The boats were Sunsail’s Beneteau F40s.

Teams from Manchester, LBS (with 3 boats), RSM, IE and Bath took part.

London Business School 1 came second, having been second in five races and first in the last one.

The MBA Winter regatta does not form part of the MBA Sailing League in 2012, but the organisers hope to repeat it next year and to join the league in 2014.

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”