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Publication Date: 2018
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Teaching Case: "What Gets Measured, Gets Managed"--The Wells Fargo Account Opening Scandal
Witman, Paul D.
Journal of Information Systems Education, v29 n3 p131-138 Sum 2018
Wells Fargo & Co.'s Community Banking unit had enjoyed a strong, positive reputation for decades. Wells Fargo, as a whole, had avoided most of the problems of the 2008 financial crisis, only to stumble into its own crisis in late 2016. The Community Banking unit was accused of opening millions of unauthorized accounts, firing employees for violating policy without addressing the root causes of those violations, and failing to detect and prevent these sorts of issues before they became widespread. Impact on consumers was widely varied, from new checking accounts that sometimes caused no significant impact, to new credit accounts that generated fees and caused negative impacts on consumer credit scores. How did the bank's approach to information management contribute to this problem? What could the bank have done differently to detect, respond to, and prevent future instances of improper account opening? What does the bank need to do going forward to prevent future problems and regain customer trust?
Descriptors: Corporations, Banking, Accounting, Financial Audits, Deception, Crime, Ethics, Risk Management, Information Utilization, Decision Making, Governance, Consumer Economics, Trust (Psychology), Case Studies
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