The MBA Global Sailing League

Skolkovo overtake LBS at the top of the rankings

12 September 2015

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”

Skolkovo Consolidate their lead in the 2015 league

5 September 2015

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.

School	LBS GMT Athens	ABC Le Havre	Cran-field Solent	RSM Medem-blik	TOTAL	Position	Number of Regattas	chg
Skolkovo	1	1	2	1	5	1	4	=
LBS	4	6	4	4	18	2	4	+1
INSEAD	6	2	3	10	21	3	3	-1
Rotterdam	5	7	14	3	29	4	4	+2
HEC/Trium	13	3	8	10	34	5	2	-1
Cranfield	13	12	1	10	36	6	1	-1
LUM	2	12	19	10	43	7	1	=
Warwick	7	12	15	10	44	8	2	=
Bath	13	12	10	10	45	9	1	=
MIP	11	12	12	10	45	10	2	=
IE	9	12	16	9	46	11	3	=
Chicago	10	12	19	6	47	13	2	=
Kellogg/WHU	8	12	19	10	49	12	1	=
Manchester	13	10	19	10	52	14	1	=

Skolkovo Return to Winning Ways in Medemblik

31 August 2015

Skolkovo sent two teams to the RSM Regatta in Medemblik, The Netherlands, and came away with first and second places. Third place was taken by RSM’s Alumni B team.

The regatta was made up of 36 races, each pitting a different combination of six of the 9 teams against eachg other, while rotating the teams among the boats. Each team sailed 24 races across the two and a half days of the regatta.

The winning team, Skolkovo 1, won 16 of the races, coming second in 6 and 3rd in just 2, to post a total of 34. Their compatriots in team Skolkovo 2 won 11 of the remaining races, ending the regatta with 43 points. RSM’s Alumni B team won 4 races, with 60 points. The remaining three races were taken by LBS Blue, who came in 4th.

The regatta was sailed in the 2012 Olympic class of Elliott 6metres boats, with crews of 3 or 4.

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Home Team win the Cranfield Regatta

23 August 2015

Cranfield Business School won the 2015 edition of the Cranfield Regatta, winning three races out of the five. This season’s leading team, Skolkovo could only manage second place, winning the two other races. INSEAD came in third, while 2014 winners, LBS came in 4th.

The Cranfield team was led by a professional skipper and first mate, provided by the charter company.

The Cranfield regatta marks the mid point of the Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League, and is sailed on the waters of the Solent, between the Isle of Wight and the Mainland on the South Coast of England. The waters are famous for their tricky tidal currents, and frequent traffic – whether it be other racing yachts or massive cargo ships.

The Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League’s sponsor, Sunsail, provided the boats, the race committee and a lot of the organisation. The boats are Sunsail’s matched fleet of Beneteau F40s, which provide a different challenge to the smaller boats seen in most of the series’s regattas: Crews of 8, 42 ft boats and large symetrical spinnakers with dip-pole gybing. Continue reading “Home Team win the Cranfield Regatta”

LBS cling onto the top of the rankings

7 July 2015

London Business School manage to hold onto the top spot in the MBA sailing rankings despite their 6th place at the ABC regatta in Le Havre. Meanwhile the Skolkovo team added a second first place in 2015 to their second place fron 2014 to move up three places to third place. HEC move up to second place, while Kellogg/WHU drop from second to fourth after missing the ABC.

Rotterdam are the other mover, climbing 2 places to 6th.

LBS owe their position to their first place at the 2014 Cranfield regatta, third at the 2014 RSM regatta and 4th at the 2014 Bocconi regatta, while Skolkovo are still handicapped by missing the 2014 Cranfield and Bocconi regattas.

Will everything change after this week’s 2015 Cranfield regatta?

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Skolkovo take an early lead

6 July 2015

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.

School	LBS GMT Athens	ABC Le Havre	TOTAL	Position	Number of Regattas	change
Skolkovo	1	1	2	1	2	=
INSEAD	6	2	8	2	2	+3
LBS	4	6	10	3	2	=
Rotterdam	5	7	12	4	2	=
LUM	2	12	14	5	1	-3
HEC/Trium	13	3	16	6	1	+7
Warwick	7	12	19	7	1	-1
Kellogg/WHU	8	12	20	8	1	-1
IE	9	12	21	9	1	-1
Chicago	10	12	22	10	1	-1
Manchester	13	10	23	11=	1	+2
MIP	11	12	23	11=	1	-1

Skolkovo make it 2 from 2 regattas at ABC

5 July 2015

The unstoppable Skolkovo sailing team continued where they had left off in Athens: winning six out of seven races on the waters of Le Havre, and also winning the onshore games: demonstrating impressive engineering skills.

The racing was in J80s, and in strong winds: Friday’s sailing was delayed becaus they were too strong, and there were a number of races where spinnakers were banned.

INSEAD came home second, with the one win that Skolkovo couldn’t manage, 2 2nds, 2 3rds and a 5th, plus a third in the onshore games. HEC came in third, although level on points with INSEAD on the water.

There were 11 teams competing: Three from INSEAD, three from HEC, two from LBS, a combined LBS/MBS team and a team from Rotterdam joining the Skolkovo team on the water.

The action now moves on to the Cranfield regatta in the tidal currents of the Solent.

Focus switches to France for the ABC

17 May 2015

The Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League action moves to Le Havre in Normandy, Northern France for the Alumni Business Cup regatta, which starts on Thursday 28th May.

Eleven teams, each sailing 24ft J80 keelboats will take to the water on that Thursday. Racing continues for three days on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

INSEAD have made this regatta their own since 2013, winning the last two events. Will the reigning champions, led by Maarten De Vries be a match for the 2015 on- form team – Skolkovo – who come fresh from winning the Global MBA Trophy? INSEAD are fielding three teams, the second of which is led by Marc Le Borgne who sails J80s regularly and knows the local waters, and so should do well. 2014’s second place team, HEC is fielding three teams, while current MBA league champions, LBS are fielding two and a joint team with Manchester Business School. Rotterdam School of Management will also hope to be in the mix.

The full list of participating teams is:

A Division:

LBS Blue
LBS Red
MBS/LBS joint
HEC 1
HEC 2
HEC 3
INSEAD 1
INSEAD 2
INSEAD 3
RSM
Skolkovo

LUM Storm up the rankings

23 April 2015

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”

Skolkovo Retain the Global MBA Trophy

20 April 2015

Global MBA Trophy 2015 — Skolkovo 1 lead LUM as they approach the top mark

The Skolkovo teams at the Global MBA Trophy in Piraeus, Greece brought home first and third place in an impressive show of strength in the Platu 25 class.

This was the first regatta in the Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League 2015.

Skolkovo 1 led from the start of the regatta and brought home a 1-1-(2)-1-1-2 to win the trophy with 6 points, comfortably ahead of second place LUM with 8.

LUM won the two races that Skolkovo 1 didn’t, came second in 3 others and discarded a DSQ.

Skolkovo 3 scored 14, coming 3rd in all but one races.

The regatta, in its 11th edition, took place on the waters of Faliron bay in Piraeus, with the on- shore activities centres on the harbour of Microlimano. The event was organised by London Business School, with the race committee and other support provided by the Yacht Club of Greece, the boats by the Greek Platu 25 owners association and logistics by Sail PROmotion.

The first day of sailing saw brilliant sunshine and clear blue skies, which conjured up an early sea breeze, so that the races could start on time at 12:00, and take place with steady southerly winds. Skolkovo 1 won the first two races of the day, and came second to LUM in the third. Continue reading “Skolkovo Retain the Global MBA Trophy”