After serving as the lab director for eight years, in order to improve operations in the lab, which employed more than 100 people, Shee took two days off a week from his busy schedule to study for an MBA at Northwestern University in Chicago, a three-hour drive away. It shows how much professional ambition he had.
在八年所長任內，為了讓轄下一百多人的龐大病理部門能夠運轉得更順利，施哲三還在每週繁忙的行程中硬擠出二天，開三小時的車到芝加哥西北大學去攻讀企管碩士，顯現出旺盛的事業企圖心。