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Mr. Bodily,
I was able to speak w/Greg this morning and I regret to inform you that he will not be able to join your class via video conference on April 3rd as we had previously hoped. Greg will have to leave Houston for some of our overseas offices beginning April 2nd for approx. two weeks (London, Tokyo & Sydney). I do apologize for the short notice, but these things tend to happen quickly, and with little or no notice. Please provide me with some possible future dates during the month of May and I will discuss them with Greg. Liz Taylor Exec. Assistant to Greg Whalley "Bodily, Sam" <BodilyS@Darden.virginia.edu< on 03/13/2001 05:40:55 PM To: "'whalley@enron.com'" <whalley@enron.com< cc: "'liz.m.taylor@enron.com'" <liz.m.taylor@enron.com<, "Venkataraman, Sankaran" <VenkatS@Darden.virginia.edu< Subject: April 3rd Class Greg, I understand from your assistant, Liz, that you will be able to join my colleage Venkat and I and our eStrategy class on April 3 10:00-11:25 Eastern Time (9:00-10:25 Central) by videoconference. That is wonderful news for us! We have a T1 line in our classroom and we can connect using two-way video so that you can see the class members and they can see you. I know that we can also arrange to put your power point slides on one screen and your face on another, if we wish to. At some point we'll get your technical people and our technical people to work out the details on the connection. We would want to verify soon that our systems are compatible. We can chat about how to use the 85 minutes we have. I was thinking that we ask the students to prepare the digital case, The Transformation of Enron 1986-2000, in which you appear in a few segments in living color, and you look great, I might add. Liz said she thought she could a copy of the CD from Sherri, Jeff Skilling's secretary, or, alternatively, I'll be happy to send you a CD. In addition to the case, I would like to give the students additional new material (accessible on the course web-site) about Enron's new ventures in the online and electronic network world. (We could use a little help from some of your people to get the best materials, I suspect). In class, we could have a case discussion led by Venkat and I for (say) the first half of class, and followed by your presentation/talk for the last half of class. Or we can give you more or less of the time--let's talk about it. I was hoping that you could direct the focus of your talk toward topics such as the following: 1. The strategy for new ebusinesses at Enron. 2. Enron's strategic advantages and competitive positioning in the digital economy. 3. Examples of laws of network economics in the digital world 4. Implementation of Enron's digital strategy. We need to prepare specific assignment questions for the students to prepare. Some of them could be taken from the introduction to the case, which we could supplement with additional questions from you or that we devise together. This will be a great experience for our students and for Venkat and I as well. And we are flexible about how much time you want to take and also about your specific topic. So please give me a call (or email) and we can settle on a plan. Thanks very much for your willingness to participate. Samuel E. Bodily John Tyler Professor of Business Administration Darden Graduate Business School 100 Darden Boulevard Charlottesville, VA 22903 Phone: 804-924-4813 Fax: 804-243-7677
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