# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-j-abernathy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:15:40.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-j-abernathy"
name: "William J. Abernathy"
slug: "william-j-abernathy"
description: "William J. Abernathy was an American professor at the Harvard Business School. With his empirical studies of the automobile industry, Abernathy contributed to explaining the industrial decline of the US automobile industry and influenced management thinking to pay more attention to innovation and long-term strategic decision making."
tagline: "American academic (1933-1983)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-11-13"
deathDate: "1983-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.390625
  historical:           5.671454666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump