Insead hold onto top spot in the rankings

5 August 2012

Insead’s 6th place at the Cranfield Regatta was enough for them to hold onto the number 1 position in the MBA sailing rankings.  They are three points ahead of London Business School, whose 3rd place on the Solent brings them above Bocconi into second. Warwick and Leeds round out the top five, climbing as MIP Milano and Manchester drop out.

The MBA Sailing Rankings are based on the past rolling 12 months of MBA sailing, so are currently made up of the 2011 Rolex MBA’s cup, the 2012 Global MBA Trophy, 2012 ABC and 2012 Cranfield regatta.

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Leeds Win the 2012 Cranfield Regatta

5 August 2012

Leeds Business School won the 21st Cranfield Regatta on 6th- 8th July.  The Leeds team were level on points with the “Cranfield 2” boat, but won on countback after winning the final race of the regatta.  This was Leeds ‘s first showing at the top of the MBA fleet, having come 9th in 2011. Cranfield matched their 2nd place from 2011, missing by the thinnest of margins the chance to win their own regatta.

Both the leading teams were skippered by paid “Sunsail” skippers, provided by the organisers. The first crew home with a skipper from the business school were London Businesss School, in third.  The top five were rounded out by “Cranfield 4” and a crew from Hong Kong Business School in 5th.  Top ranked Insead came 6th.

The Regatta is sailed on matched 42 ft Beneteau F40s, in the Solent, off the south coast of England. The weather was wet.

 

LBS and Insead share the top spot in the 2012 League

25 July 2012

London Business School’s win at the ABC, combined with their 5th place in Athens means they are level on points with 2011 MBA Sailing League champions Insead after two events.

IMD’s second place in LA Trinite Sur Mer brings them into third place in the standings, three points behind the joint leaders. Fourth and fifth place go to ABC 5th & 6th place HEC and WU.

Meanwhile, Bocconi’s 13th place at the ABC means they fall down from the number 1 spot they occupied down to joint 9th, and MIP’s 11th place means they fall from 2nd to equal 6th.

 

 

School LBS GMT Athens ABC LA Trinite Sur Mer TOTAL Position Number of Regattas change
Insead 3 3 6 1= 2 +2
LBS 5 1 6 1= 2 +4
IMD 7 2 9 3 1 +4
HEC/ Trium 7 5 12 4 1 +3
WU 7 6 13 5 1 +2
MIP Milano 2 11 13 6= 2 -4
Rotterdam 6 7 13 6= 2 =
IE 7 7 14 8 1 =
Bocconi 1 13 14 9= 2 -8
Warwick 4 10 14 9= 2 -5
Kellogg/WHU 7 8 15 11 1 -4
Oxford Said 7 12 19 12 1 -5

No Change at the top of the MBA Sailing Rankings

22 July 2012

Insead’s third place at the ABC regatta means they stay top of the MBA sailing rankings, while Bocconi’s 13th place was just enough to keep them in second place – one point ahead of LBS in 3rd.  The only change in the top 5 is a return for Warwick, as they scored a 10th place in LA Trinite, having not participated in 2011. They replace MIP Milano, who were 7th in Venice last year, but could only manage 11th in France, so drop to 7th in the rankings. Continue reading “No Change at the top of the MBA Sailing Rankings”

London Business School retain ABC title

22 July 2012

London Business School won the Alumni Business Cup for the the third time in succession on this 20th edition of the regatta.  The regatta, sailed from the 7th to the 9th June 2012,  returned to La Trinite Sur Mer, in Brittany, where it had been staged from 1993 to 1996. The Brittany weather, unfortunately, also returned, making for a wet and windy week:  Racing was abandoned on the Thursday because of strong wind warnings.

Friday saw wet and windy racing with spinnakers banned by the race committee.  Four races were run  – all upwind – downwind. The overnight podium was IMD, Insead (De Vries) and LBS. Continue reading “London Business School retain ABC title”

Insead stay top of the rankings

13 May 2012

INSEAD’s   third place at the Global MBA trophy in Piraeus consolidates their position at the top of the MBA Sailing rankings as we begin the 2012 season.  Indeed, as they came 4th in 2011, it makes their score one point less than at the end of 2011.

Bocconi and LBS are lying second and third respectively with 22 and 23 points, while Manchester and Cranfield benefit from the smaller number of qualifying boats in Greece and move up to 4th and 6th respectively at the expense of MIP Milano and Warwick who drop to 5th and 7th respectively. Only the 6 boats in the “A” division at Athens could qualify for the trophy, and so only those boats competing in the A division could gain points for the league.

 

Other big movers are Wharton, Chicago and HEC/Trium who missed Athens this year and so drop 4, 10 and 7 places respectively.

School ABC Venice Cranfield Solent Bocconi Sta Margharita LBS GMT Athens Total Number of Regattas Position Change
Insead 3 1 7 3 14 4 1  =
Bocconi 13 3 5 1 22 3 2  =
LBS 1 4 13 5 23 4 3  =
Manchester 13 7 11 7 38 2 4  +2
MIP Milano 7 12 20 2 41 3 5  -1  Continue reading “Insead stay top of the rankings”

Bocconi Triumph in Greece

7 May 2012
Bocconi sneak ahead of MIP
Bocconi sneak ahead of MIP

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

28 March 2012

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 win the inaugural MBA Winter regatta

19 February 2012

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.