Chuck Vest's decision to accept MIT presidency (Dave Ragone advice)

Closing anecdote. Ragone's two reasons to accept the MIT presidency: no football team, no medical school. Frames why MIT created the Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) jointly with Harvard rather than starting its own medical school.

Tom: Right, hopefully. Thank you, fellow, that gave me time to remember the rest of my story. So when Chuck Vest wanted to know whether he should accept the job of president of MIT, he called Dave Ragone. And Dave said, "Chuck, there's two reasons why you should accept the presidency of MIT. One, they don't have a football team, and two, they don't have a medical school." And that was why Chuck Vest accepted the presidency. So MIT didn't start a medical school. Instead, they started the Division of Health Sciences and Technology, so you can get the degree of both Harvard and MIT in medicine. You've been here long enough, you learn all kinds of dirt.