WHU – The MBA Global Sailing League

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

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/

ABC regatta sign ups are open

3 July 2023

The team from WHU business school have opened registrations for the 2023 regatta. Details on the event website here: http://www.abcuphamburg.de/

The regatta will take place on 25 – 27 August, with crews arriving on the 24th, and will be located in the Northern European capital of sailing, Kiel, hosted by prestigious Kieler Yacht Club!The regatta will be sailed in new, matched J/70s owned by the German National Sailing League.

The action will be fleet racing with on- the water umpires. Participants will be housed in a modern hotel. An exciting programme of evening events is being planned. The organisers report there have been over 7 teams signed up so far!

ABC regatta returns after 3 year break

21 January 2023

The team from WHU business school have announced that the Alumni Business Cup regatta will take place under their stewardship in 2023, following the hiatus caused by the pandemic in 2020- 22.

The regatta will take place on 25 – 27 August, with crews arriving on the 21st, and will be located in the Northern European capital of sailing, Kiel, hosted by prestigious Kieler Yacht Club!

The regatta will be sailed in new, matched J/70s owned by the German National Sailing League.

Book the dates in your claendar: the ABC is back!

Kellogg/WHU top the league in 2021

28 September 2021

Global MBA Trophy 2018©Nikos Alevromytis

As there was only one MBA Sailing League regatta in 2021 – RSM’s regatta in Porto, Portugal, the top placing business school team at that regatta become the league champions. Step forward the crew from Kellogg/WHU!

The rest of the league is:

2nd: RSM
3rd: Chicago
4th Skolkovo

Mixed team win in Porto

6 July 2021

The mixed team (including one crew member from INSEAD, and one from Oxford) came top of the points table at the RSM regatta in Porto, Portugal last weekend. They had a dominant first day, with 3 first places, and managed to hold onto first place with 2 second places on day 2.

The podium was made up of Kellogg/WHU, who found their mojo on day two, finishing the regatta with three bullets to end up second, and RSM who scored consistently to finish third, level on points.

Chicago Booth complete the list of competitors, with Skolkovo scored DNC in all races, after having to pull out due to international travel issues.

School	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Points	Position
Mixed	1	1	2	1	2	(4)	2	9	1
WHU/Kellogg	(3)	3	3	3	1	1	1	12	2
RSM	2	2	1	2	(4)	2	3	12	3
Chicago	(4)	4	4	4	3	3	4	22	4
Skolkovo	DNC(6)	DNC(6)	DNC(6)	DNC(6)	DNC(6)	DNC(6)	DNC(6)	36	5

The Alumni Business Cup 2020: 21 – 24 May; Hamburg, Germany

24 September 2019

The Alumni Business Cup Regatta has announced the date, venue and organisers of its 2020 event:

Date: 21 – 24 May 2020

Venue: Hamburg, Germany

Boats: J/70

Organisation: Kellogg-WHU Sailing Club

Format:To include match racing.

Website – ABC: https://www.abcup.org/

Website – ABC Hamburg 2020: https://www.prantos.com/sailing

Meet the MBA Fastnet 2013 Team!

11 February 2013

The crew of the MBA Fastnet 2013 team have been busy preparing already for their Fastnet campaign with two successful training weekends at Team Heiner HQ in Lelystad, The Netherlands under the guidance of Roy Heiner and team.

The team, in no particular order:

Moritz Vielhauer (Columbia)
Herman de Knop (Columbia)
Ina Spiess (WHU / Kellogg)
Grania Holzwarth (WHU / Kellogg)
Sascha Hocherl (WHU / Kellogg)
Benjamin Grosman (LBS)
Christian Hausmann (LBS)
Iris Co (Schulich / RSM)
Berend Groeneveld (RSM)
Erwin van Helden (RSM)
Andrei Grigorian (RSM)

Our first training weekend saw the team in Maxfun 35’s and J109’s training in some “fresh” conditions, as well as going through some onshore theory.

The second weekend was on a Maxfun 35 in January 2013, with “fresher” (i.e. colder) conditions providing opportunities for more training.

More details on the crew as well as past and future training to follow soon!