HEC – The MBA Global Sailing League

Imperial win the Global MBA Trophy 2025

13 May 2025

Global MBA Trophy 2025 © Nikos Alevromytis

Imperial college Business School lifted the Global MBA Trophy aloft in Piraeus, Greece after two days of hard- fought racing. They beat 2024’s winners, SDA Bocconi into second place and 2023’s winners , POLIMI GSoM into third, scoring two wins, two second places and a third place. Racing was in Platu 25 sports boats. The event was presented in partnership with Mastercard by London Business School Alumni Sailing Club and the Yacht Club of Greece.

Bocconi stay consistent to lift the Global MBA Trophy 2024

23 April 2024

The crew from SDA Bocconi won the 2024 Global MBA Trophy over a 4- race day sailed out of Microlimano harbour in Piraeus, Greece on the 13th April. The crew, led by Gianpiero Menza came home in 4th, 2nd, 3rd and 1st, to win the trophy by 3 points. There were 12 teams racing in the “A” division of the regatta, from 9 business schools.

Global MBA Trophy announces competitor list

14 January 2024

Global MBA Trophy 2023 ©Nikos Alevromytis

London Business School, organisers of the 18th Global MBA Trophy in Piraeus, Athens, Greece in April 2024 have announced a preliminary list of participants.

The event website is Globalmbatrophy.com

Early Bird sign- up ends on 31 January. Also, after that date, the regatta will accept second entries from individual schools for division A spots.

In the Platu 25 Class, Division A, competing for the Global MBA Trophy and ranking in the MBA Sailing League, the following teams have signed up:

Cambridge Judge
IE
Imperial
London Business School
Oxford Said
POLIMI GSoM
WHU

POLIMI win their 4th Global MBA Trophy

8 May 2023

Ugo Alvazzi del Frate and his team from Polimi Graduate School of Management won a close contest at the Global MBA Trophy regatta in Piraeus, Greece on 21- 22 April. The Italian business school team won by one point over 6 races, winning the last three races to edge out newcomers Reichman business school from Israel.

The regatta was raced hard on Friday 21st, with the race committee getting 4 races away, anticipating lighter airs on the Saturday. 11 Platu 25s raced windward- leeward courses on the bay of Faliron, hosted by the Yacht club of Greece from their base in Microlimano harbour.

MIP Win the Global MBA Trophy 2022

20 April 2022

Global MBA Trophy 2022 ©Nikos Alevromytis/www.alen.gr

The Global MBA Trophy returned after the Pandemic, back to its long- term home of Piraeus, Greece on the 7-10 April 2022. After a 2 year hiatus due to COVID and a 3 year gap since it was last held in Greece in 2018, normal service was resumed with Ugo Alvazzi del Frate’s MIP team winning the third regatta in a row in these waters.

INSEAD share the Rolex spoils with Tuck in Santa Margherita

3 October 2017

22047993_1957689321112455_4413410634771941142_o The final regatta of the Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League, the Rolex MBA’s Conference and Regatta, was as usual the biggest event of the year, featuring 50 boats and 400 sailors.

The “A” division was split into an “Open” class of 10 J70s and an “Offshore” class of 9 Beneteau 36.7s.

INSEAD took their third title of the season to win the Open class, capping off a dominant year with three first places out of five. Second place was 2016’s winner of the MBA’s cup, MIT with IESE third.

Tuck, in their only regatta of the year, won a very competitive Offshore class, with two firsts. HEC and Goethe rounded off the podium, winning a race each.

The MBA’s cup was presented jointly to INSEAD and Tuck along with a joint INSEAD/ Bocconi team in the “Cruising” class of handicapped non- spinnaker boats. Continue reading “INSEAD share the Rolex spoils with Tuck in Santa Margherita”

INSEAD stake their claim to the 2017 title with Cranfield Regatta Win

2 October 2017

INSEAD won their second regatta of the year at the Cranfield Regatta on the Solent, off the South coast of England. Once again, a regatta was dominated by a single team, as Kit Glover’s crew won five of the six races.

The Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League’s fourth regatta was the biggest to date with 13 teams lining up on the start line, with a strong contingent from the host school, Cranfield, with six boats.

One of the Cranfield crews came in second, while ABC winners Skolkovo could only manage third. Continue reading “INSEAD stake their claim to the 2017 title with Cranfield Regatta Win”

Skolkovo retain the ABC title

2 October 2017

The team from Skolkovo kept hold of the Alumni Business Cup trophy, through a strong performance on the water on the Ligurian coast off Sestri Levante, Italy. They pipped London Business School by just 2 points in the end, after a relatively poor performance in the onshore games, which LBS won.

This was the third regatta in the Sunsail MBA Global Sailing League.

Evgeniya Semykina’s team won seven out of the ten races, with LBS taking six second places. But the onshore games could not be discarded, and so the regatta came down to the last two races.

Third place was taken by Marc LeBorgne’s INSEAD team, keeping the French School’s claim on the league going strong. HEC, Kellogg/WHU and a second INSEAD boat made up the six- strong fleet. Continue reading “Skolkovo retain the ABC title”

RSM kick off the year with a win in Lanzarote

28 March 2016

The fourth MBA Winter Regatta in Lanzarote, The Canary Islands, saw the RSM crew led by Yannis Pagoulatos take home the trophy. The team won two races, and consistently came home in the top three to finish with 11 points.

IE team 1, led by Santiago Alvarez de Toledo were excluded from racing on day 1, with technical problems, but managed to score 4 1st places and a second on day 2, to finish in second place with 13 points.

Third place was taken by the highly fancied INSEAD/HEC/RSM mixed team, while last year’s winners, LBS1 came in 5th.

The regatta had a new format this year, with an owners’ representative on board each boat to advise the team and provide safety back- up.

Race:	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total:
RSM	2	1	(5)	1	2	2	3	11
IE 1	(7)	7	1	2	1	1	1	13
INSEAD	1	2	2	3	3	(4)	2	13
IE 2	3	3	3	(4)	4	3	4	20
LBS 1	4	4	(6)	5	5	6	6	30
LBS 2	5	5	4	(6)	6	5	5	30

Strong Line- Up for MBA Winter Regatta

13 February 2016

The Crews will be lining up for the first race of the MBA racing season – the first race of the MBA Winter Regatta – on Friday morning off Puerto Calero in Lanzarote, The Canary Islands.

Last year’s MBAWR winners, LBS will be up against a very strong mixed crew from HEC/Insead/RSM: These two are expected to be fighting for the honours. Up against them are another crew from LBS, two from IE and one from RSM, all vying to cause an upset. The “A” division crews will be sailing 4-5 man J80 sportsboats.

For the first time the Winter Regatta also has a “B” division, sailing in 36- 40ft boats. IE has sent a massive three boat contingent to add to their A division crews. There’s also a crew from HEC to challenge for the Div B title.

The racing takes place on Friday and Saturday, and the crews can expect a warm welcome from the Canarian weather and the local hospitality at the events on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

The weather forecast with 6 days to go is for strong Northerly winds on Friday, calming somewhat on Saturday.