At Elite Business Schools, Upper-Crust Sailing Competitions Are Part of the Education

Last weekend, 400 students from top business schools around the world traveled to the Italian Riviera to network on fancy boats. The occasion was the Rolex MBA Regatta, which took place in the northern Italian city of Genoa from Friday through Sunday. The team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Business won the race, beating out sailors from Harvard Business School, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Columbia School of Business, and the host, the Milan-based SDA Bocconi School of Management.

“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,” according to a press release for the event.