The Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League has a new team at the top of the rankings. LBS have held the top spot since the RSM regatta in 2012. Now the Skolkovo team from Moscow have taken overthe top of the rankings. They are level on points with LBS, but have competed in one fewer regattas.

Elsewhere in the rankings, Rotterdam climb above HEC/Trium into 4th.  INSEAD stay in 3rd. LUM, who won in Lelystad last year, but did not compete in Medemblik drop 5 places to 12= Continue reading “Skolkovo overtake LBS at the top of the rankings”

Following the Cranfield Regatta and the RSM Regatta, Skolkovo take a commanding lead in the 2015 Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League.

Sitting at the top of the table with 5 points, they lead LBS with 18 who climb up ahead of INSEAD with 21 points. Rotterdam climb 2 places to 4th, with HEC/Trium and Cranfield dropping a place each to 5th and 6th.

Moscow’s Skolkovo School of Management’s sailing team take a commanding early lead in the 2015 MBA sailing league.  Their two wins in Athens and Le Havre put them on 2 points, 6  points ahead of second- place INSEAD and 8 ahead of third place LBS.

LUM drop to 5th place, as they did not make it to the ABC regatta.

INSEAD climb three places with their second place at the ABC, while HEC jump into 6th place, making up for missing the Global MBA Trophy by coming third in Le Havre.

RSM Regatta champions and now second place at the Global MBA Trophy, LUM, the business school from Bari in Italy climb 16 places to 6th equal in the Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League rankings.  They share 6th spot with 2015 GMT winners Skolkovo, who climb 4 places.

London Business School retain the top spot with their 4th place in Greece, after their 2nd place in 2014. Kellogg/WHU climb one spot to second, with their 8th place, while HEC/Trium, who didn’t field a team in the GMT A division, drop one spot to 3rd.

The increased number of teams at the Global MBA Trophy means that non- participants were penalised: HEC, Bath, MIT Sloan, Bocconi and Sauder all drop places, while participants INSEAD, Rotterdam and Warwick climb. Continue reading “LUM Storm up the rankings”

The MBA Sailing League is excited and proud to announce that Sunsail, the world’s largest sailing holiday company, has agreed to sponsor the league for the 2015 season.

As part of the sponsorship agreement, Sunsail will provide a weekend’s sailing or racing in the Solent off the South coast of England to the business school team that wins the 2015 league. This prize is worth over €1,400.

The MBA Sailing league will become known as the Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League.

MBA Sailing league co-ordinator, Rob Cotterill, said: “Sunsail manage one of the biggest and most competitive regattas of the MBA sailing season, the Cranfield Regatta, so we welcome their decision to partner with the league and look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship.”

The MBA Sailing League brings together five sailing regattas and the teams of MBA students and alumni who race in them, encouraging business school teams to compete throughout the season, and rewarding the most consistent and most successful.  The regattas that make up the league are the Global MBA Trophy, held in Athens in April; The Alumni Business Cup, held in different locations Europe in May/June; The Cranfield Regatta held in the Solent on the South coast of England in July; The RSM Regatta, held in the Netherlands in August and the Rolex MBA’s Conference and Regatta held in Santa Margharita Ligure, on the Lugurian coast of Italy in September. Business Schools who have ranked highly in the league include London Business School, INSEAD, Kellogg, HEC, Bocconi and Cranfield.

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The team from MIT Sloan beat the Bocconi boat in the final of the match racing to take home the trophy at the Rolex MBAs Regatta.

The crews had battled light winds in the end- of season finale, off the Ligurian coast, based out of Santa Margharita Ligure.

The MIT crew had come first in the Beneteau 36.7 division on Friday and Saturday, with three firsts and a second place, and they carried that form through the match racing finals on the Sunday.

Second place Bocconi, meanwhile had been lying fourth in the 36.7 fleet, only just qualifying for the match racing, but managed to beat all except the team from Cambridge Massachusetts in the one- one – one format. Continue reading “MIT Sloan are Rolex Champions!”

With LBS, Insead and Kellogg coming in 3rd and joint 4th at the RSM regatta, their spots at the top of the rankings are unchanged.  As there were only 7 crews competing, Cranfield do not lose out heavily from missing the regatta, and stay third in the 2014 league. Meanwhile the top places taken by Skolkovo and LUM in Lelystad do not help much as both missed Cranfield and Bocconi last year. LUM do climb 5 places to 12=, and Skolkovo 2 places to 8=

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.