insead high tech acquisitions workshop ben thanks attending vacation last week driving ca houston could answer first message regardoing insead conference time objective find workshop high tech acquisitions evaluate usefulness program enron shall making recommendation jeff skilling work wharton partner number different research projects shall try catch next week find said valuation small high tech firms vince benjamin parsons 06 12 2000 05 50 vince j kaminski hou ect ect cc bryan seyfried lon ect ect subject insead high tech acquisitions workshop vince attended workshop high tech acquisitions insead saturday alongside participants cisco eads razorfish cable wireless academics insead wharton basic premise discuss get feedback practitioners research project phd study currently underway wharton discussions interesting especially first exposure area examples discussions raised include firms acquire new businesses instead developing house degree post acquisition integration optimal difficulties us firms acquiring euro asian high tech companies value small high tech firms quantify success failure acquisition feeling work area would beneficial enron would help development academic research give us first hand access results plus would enable us learn mistakes others meeting practitioners workshops greater access case studies guess could also aid realignment within high tech communication industry seen studies regards ben