Business leaders such as N.R. Narayana Murthy and S.N. Subrahmanyan recently stirred the ire of employees across organizations and levels by touting the virtues of a 70-hour and 90-hour work-week ...

Amy Gallo is the author of the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict and Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People). She is also a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review.

Set an allocation threshold and identify the correct triggers to make it work for you. Have you placed bets on small-cap funds or IT-focussed funds recently? Perhaps you have put a tidy sum in a China ...