The MBA Global Sailing League

MIT’s sailing team posted their third successive victory at the Rolex MBA’s Cup regatta in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy in September.

The team from Cambridge MA won two of the four races in the regatta finals, coming second in a third, to post a net score of 4 points.  Second place were Columbia, with three second places and a third, posting 8 points. INSEAD came home third, with 7 points, winning the second race.

The finals were raced on the Sunday, in J80 Sports boats and with the aid of top Italian coaches on board each boat. Continue reading “MIT retain the Rolex regatta title”

Skolkovo sailing team retained their RSM regatta title at the start of September in Medemblik, the Netherlands.

The crew from Moscow won 14 out of 17 races, never coming lower than 4th in the 6- boat fleet.  They won the regatta with 22 points, compared to second place RSM’s 42. Continue reading “Skolkovo win in Medemblik”

Moscow’s Skolkovo sailing team keep the top spot in the 2016 Sunsail MBa Global Sailing League despite their second place in the Cranfield Regatta.  Their lead is now down to 4 points. The Russian school has 4 points from three events, while new second place school, LBS has 8.

INSEAD slip a place to third, while Henley, Kellogg/WHU and Cranfield shoot up the table following their high placings at the Cranfield regatta to lie 4th, 5th and 6th.  Continue reading “Skolkovo keep the 2016 top spot”

London Business School, the 2014 Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League champions won the Cranfield regatta  on the 9-10 of July, in the Solent on the South coast of England, to end a losing streak that’s lasted since they won the same regatta in 2014. LBS won with three first places and two seconds.

For the first time since they have competed with them, they finished ahead of the main Skolkovo crew. The Russian team have dominated the league since The Global MBA Trophy in April 2015.  Skolkovo came second on the Solent, winning one race and coming third in two. Continue reading “London Business School Return to Winning Ways”

London Business School’s second place in the Global MBA Trophy in Athens, along with their 7th place at the Rolex regatta in 2015 means that they climb above Skolkovo in the Sunsail MBA Global Sailing rankings, after the ABC regatta in June.

The rankings take into account the previous 12 months’ results in league events.

Bocconi are the other big movers, with their 5th place in Athens this year, compared to not participating in 2015. HEC, meanwhile drop back, achieving only a 7th place in the ABC, compared to 3rd last year. Continue reading “LBS return to the top of the rankings”

Skolkovo’s success at the Global MBA Trophy and the Alumni Business Cup gives them a strong lead in the 2016 Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League. Their two victories give them 2 points, while nearest rivals INSEAD have 5, with a second place in St Petersburg and 3rd in Athens.  LBS finish off the podium with 7 points (5th in the ABC and 2nd in the GMT). Continue reading “Skolkovo take an early lead in the 2016 league”

Skolkovo welcomed the ABC regatta to St Petersburg, and proceeded to win a very windy regatta, truncated to just the one day’s sailing.

The Russian team, led by Maxim Merzlikin, won two of the five races that day, came second in two more and the onshore games, and discarded a fifth place to win the event with 8 points and the sailing element with 6 points.

Three INSEAD teams won the legs that Skolkovo didn’t, with Spyros Papantoniou’s crew taking two firsts, Marc LeBorgne’s taking one and Maarten deVries’s taking the shore games victory. The three INSEAD teams were level on 13 points, with Spyros coming second with more 1st places, and Marc coming third. Continue reading “Home team wins in Russia”