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Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship

Expertise: applied microeconomics, econometrics, entrepreneurship, health economics, labor economics, efficacy of HIV treatment, advanced infertility treatment, economics of health and aging

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Hamilton has directed the Hatchery™ Entrepreneurship Program at the Olin School of Business. Before joining Olin, he was an assistant professor of economics at McGill University for five years. In addition to being an expert on entrepreneurship, he also expertise in the economics of health and aging, specifically the efficacy of HIV treatment, hospital M&As. and advanced infertility treatment.

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Work:(314) 935-8057
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E-mail:hamiltonb@olin.wustl.edu
Address:One Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1133
St. Louis, MO 63130

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Innovation in business education

New healthcare management major offered at Olin Business School (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11303.html)

March 17, 2008 -- The Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis now offers a major in healthcare management. Professors from both the medical and business schools will teach courses to both business and non-business majors. The degree will help develop a strong grounding in all aspects of the healthcare industry as well as in the science behind medicine.


New research

Surgeons within the same hospital generate widely different costs (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/7133.html)

May 4, 2006 --
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Two surgeons at the same hospital perform the same operations on patients with similar medical histories. Their costs to the hospital are similar, right? Not necessarily. There could be a difference as high as 45 percent. New research from Washington University in St. Louis finds that even when controlling for complexity of the operation and patient risk, surgeons incurred a wide range of hospital costs. More... (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/tips/normal/7133.html)


State mandated insurance coverage and market competition have similar impact on making in vitro fertilization affordable

Olin School of Business professors examine the economics of infertility treatments (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/5845.html)

Oct. 5, 2005 --
In vitro fertilization can cost anywhere from $10,000 - $15,000 for each round of treatments. This means access to assisted reproductive technologies (ART) is generally limited to a relatively small portion of couples that seek it. Several state governments have turned to public policy in an attempt to make access to ART more widely available. But two professors from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis find that market competition can be as effective at expanding access as requiring insurance companies to cover infertility treatments. At the same time, competition appears to lower the rate of high-risk births and encourages the use of new technologies.


New Olin professorship

Bellwether Foundation establishes professorship in entrepreneurship; will be named in honor of Robert Brookings Smith (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/866.html)

May 10, 2004 --
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Major gifts from The Bellwether Foundation and from Nancy Morrill Smith will create the Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professorship in Entrepreneurship for Washington University's John M. Olin School of Business, it was announced by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Barton H. Hamilton, Ph.D., professor of economics, management and entrepreneurship in the John M. Olin School of Business, will be appointed as the first holder in a ceremony planned for later this year.



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•Barton Hamilton's Web page (http://www.olin.wustl.edu/faculty/FacultyBio.cfm?UserName=hamiltonb)

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