When news of Wells Fargo’s infamous fake accounts scandal broke in 2016, the bottom-up crisis caught the attention of Todd Hartman.

Hartman, then serving as deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer (CCO) for consumer electronics retailer Best Buy, wondered along with his team, “‘Could that happen here?’”

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...