Research Explainers 8 min read

Agent Harnesses Can Learn From Their Own Failures

Self-Harness shows that agents can use execution traces, targeted edits, and regression tests to improve the scaffolding around their own model. The important constraint is preserving task performance while the runtime changes itself.
Research Explainers 8 min read

New Technologies Take Time to Reach the Productivity Stats

Paul David's dynamo analogy explains why general-purpose technologies can spread through business before appearing clearly in productivity statistics. The lesson is to distinguish implementation lag from evidence that the technology lacks value.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Paul Desmarais Jr.

Paul Desmarais Jr. served as Power Corporation of Canada’s co-CEO for nearly twenty-five years, advancing patient capital, active ownership, partnership, and long-term competitiveness as foundations for sustainable, multigenerational business building on a global stage.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Michele Romanow

Michele Romanow built six companies before thirty-five and co-founded Clearco, which funded e-commerce founders through revenue data rather than traditional pitches, grounding her advice in surviving failure, moving quickly, and understanding the math of scale.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Dax Dasilva

Dax Dasilva built Lightspeed from a bootstrapped startup into a public company with openly LGBTQ+ leadership, then launched Age of Union, combining tech-style operational speed and spiritual principles around individual action on environmental crises.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Barry Zekelman

Barry Zekelman took over his family’s struggling steel business at nineteen and built a leading independent North American pipe and tube producer through acquisitions and domestic manufacturing, shaping his views on trade, steel markets, and heavy-industry operations.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Melinda Rogers-Hixon

Melinda Rogers-Hixon is Rogers Communications’ deputy chair and founder of Rogers Venture Partners, whose career examines the collision of corporate strategy, family succession, board independence, generational wealth, and high-stakes institutional conflict within a telecom giant.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Edward Rogers

Edward Rogers chairs Rogers Communications and oversees family telecommunications and sports holdings, using trust authority to reshape leadership, advance the Shaw acquisition, and gain control of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment—a case in governance and inherited power.

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