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Avoiding man-made disasters like Grenfell could be helped by holding executives more accountable

Written by Akhil Bhardwaj, Associate Professor (Strategy and Organisation), School of Management, University of Bath

Ten days after the fire.dominika zara/Shutterstock

All of the 72 deaths caused by the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017 were avoidable. The same could be said of the 346 people who died in two separate Boeing 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019. And the the 47 people killed in 2013 by a train derailment in Canada, or the 116 children and 28 adults killed...

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