Economic and social instability can breed adaptive behaviors for business that ought to be better understood and modeled in developed markets. On our São Paulo immersion we traversed examples in the growing fintech and healthcare sectors catering to the underbanked; urban planning efforts reliant on public private partnerships; and large corporations embracing concrete metrics to hold themselves accountable for their environmental impact.

We spent time in the homes of pioneers for sustainable agriculture and new media. In each we found an appetite for experimentation. Leaders readily borrowed ideas from adjacent industries. In the absence of infrastructure, solutions are imperfect yet flexible.