Wells Fargo - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

General Motors was moving toward its vision of zero emissions and zero accidents by investing in electrified, shared, and autonomous vehicles. And while Wells Fargo was creating fraudulent accounts, Bank of... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

Oppenheimer & Co. had 20 percent of its advisors with a past record of misconduct, First Allied Securities had 18 percent, and Wells Fargo had 15 percent. Egan notes that these numbers include all... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

04 May 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

company? So long as they are not triumphalist, large banks like JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo that were less involved in chasing too-good-to-be-true subprime returns have a differentiating advantage. But... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

end of the rainbow. As such, they have been associated with young organizations starting from a small base and feeling a necessity to grow very fast. The downside of BHAGs For the adverse outcomes of super stretch goals poorly managed, we can turn to two examples:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

experience. Not to be outdone, incumbents like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo are also moving into online lending, in some cases partnering with emergent fintech players. Taken together, Morgan Stanley... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

01 Mar 2006
News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

fateful day in 1977. “We started to chat, and the phone rang,” recalls Rogers. When Cook hung up, he had tears in his eyes. “I offered to excuse myself, but he said, ‘No, no, let me tell you what just happened.’ ” Wells View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

of the application process, automating it and making it digital first. Soon, however, big banks woke up and realized they did not have to cede this market to the disruptors. JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Wells View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

13 Mar 2018
First Look

March 13, 2018

failure in U.S. history. Faced with Wachovia’s impending bankruptcy, the FDIC intervened again, voting on Monday, September 29, to sell Wachovia’s retail bank to Citigroup for $1 a share. Three days later, Wells View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

processes: carbonate mineralization. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810030-PDF-ENG Citigroup-Wachovia-Wells Fargo Guhan Subramanian and Nithyasri SharmaHarvard Business School Case 910-006 In late September... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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