19 BOAT CREWS FROM SCHOOLS INCLUDING HARVARD, HEC, LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL AND MIT WILL GATHER ON 25/27 SEPTEMBER IN SANTA MARGHERITA, ITALY, FOR THE REGATTA ORGANIZED BY SDA BOCCONI WITH YACHT CLUB ITALIANO AND ROLEX

From the 25th to the 27th of September MBA students from the world’s leading business schools - including Harvard, MIT, HEC, IESE and London Business School – will challenge each other in the waters of Santa Margherita, on the Mediterranean coast, in occasion of the 2015 Rolex MBA’s Conference & Regatta, an event organized by the Sailing Club of SDA Bocconi school of management and Yacht Club Italiano in partnership with Rolex.

Around 400 MBA students and alumni will participate in this 11th edition of the regatta - for three days of sailing, networking, debate and social events. Apart from the sailing, for the students it also represents a chance to network and to experience how to manage and work within a team - while for the MBA students of the SDA Bocconi Sailing Club it is the result of months of hands-on experience in organizing all aspects of such an event.

On Saturday participants will follow the conference on the topic “In search of equilibrium. Standing against the winds of an unpredictable environment” which will see the participation of Clemens Hellsberg, former chairman of the Vienna Philharmonics, and  Marie Johns, former President and CEO of Verizon, for an exchange between today’s leaders and the managers of tomorrow.

The sailing race will then conclude on Sunday morning with a Match Race (regatta in which the boats will compete head to head).
 
The participating schools are:

SDA Bocconi School of Management
Harvard Business School
London Business School
Wharton
INSEAD
Columbia Business School
Iese Business School
MIT Sloan School of Management
Chicago Booth School of Business
IE Business School
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Business School
HEC Paris
IMD
The Fuqua School of Business
Tuck School of Business
Manchester Business School
Goethe Business School
Rotterdam School of Management
Sauder School of Business