REichman – The MBA Global Sailing League

POLIMI GSoM are the 2023 MBA Sailing League Champions

3 November 2023

Global MBA Trophy 2023 ©Nikos Alevromytis

The final scores are in, and the league table has been calculated… POLIMI GSoM win the 2023 MBA Sailing League by a single point, with IE in second place and LBS in third. Reichman come in fourth, just 4 points behind POLIMI.

POLIMI win the Global MBA Trophy regatta in Pireaus in April, came second at their own regatta in Garda, then missed the ABC regatta in Kiel and the IE regatta in Lanzarote, but held out to win the league.

The MBA Sailing League trophy will be presented at the Global MBA Trophy prizegiving in April 2024.

POLIMI last won the league in 2018. The league has been competed for since 2011.

POLIMI still leading despite Reichman win in Kiel

9 September 2023

POLIMI GSoM, from Milan remain top of the 2023 MBA Sailing league after the ABC regatta in Kiel. Reichman’s win in Germany takes them back up to second place, just 3 points behind. LBS and IE, who missed the ABC regatta, drop back to 3rd equal. The 2023 league table is here.

This means that POLIMI remain topping the 12- month rankings with LBS clinging onto 2nd place. The rankings are here.

Attention now switches to the IE regatta in Lanzarote next month. Both POLIMI ands Reichman are expected to take part, so there’ll be a showdown in the Canaries!

Reichman win in Kiel

4 September 2023

The team from Reichman University in Israel won the 2023 Alumni Business Cup regatta. The event was hosted by the Kieler Yacht Club, and organised by WHU sailing club, taking place in Germany for the first time on the Baltic Sea.

The ABC is the longest running regatta in the MBA Sailing League. 7 teams from 6 international business schools competed on the exciting J70 boats owned by the German Sailing Premier League (Segelbundesliga).

Great weather and wind conditions enabled 14 inshore races and 1 costal race in the Kieler Förde. The Reichman team won 7 inshore races and the coastal race, to narrowly beat Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, winning 5 races)into second with the host WHU team in third.

ABC Regatta – competitors announced

5 August 2023

The Kellogg/ WHU business school team, organisers of the 2023 Alumni Business Cup in the German sailing headquarters of Kiel, have announced the participating teams. There will be at least 8 boats on the start line from the folowing schools:

2x Oxford SAID

2x WHU

Bucerius

Cambridge

Reichman (TLV)

RSM

The organisers are currently recruiting crew for a mixed team for those business schools unable to deploy a full crew of their own.

The regatta takes place on 24th – 27th August. Crews of 5 will compete in J70s.

Event website: https://www.abcuphamburg.de/

POLIMI consolidate 2023 league position

11 June 2023

POLIMI GSoM’s second place in their own regatta consolidates their position at the top of the MBA Sailing League table for 2023. IE and LBS’s placing in this regatta move them ahead of Reichman, who did not attend. Meanwhile Sapienza Roma climb to 5th place after their win in Garda. The 2023 League table is here.

In the 12- month rankings table, POLIMI switch places with LBS, who won in Capri in 2022, to lead the rankings by 1 point. The rankings table is here.

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.