Transformative Topics May 2026

Many of you have just ended your term of teaching while others are starting to gear up. Regardless of where you are in your teaching cycle, pin this email so you can refer back to it as your teaching preparation begins anew. This month, we asked Alexei Gloukhovtsev, the Co-Chair of TCR's Education Council, to provide information that can support your preparation. As Alexei notes:

Whether you're redesigning a course from scratch or looking for a single assignment or lecture to deepen a unit you already teach, the TCR teaching materials repository can help!

The TCR repository was an initiative launched to make socially impactful teaching materials more accessible across the marketing discipline. By embracing the spirit of Open Educational Resources, we hope to lower the barriers to integrating social impact into business education and amplify the collective work of scholars dedicated to addressing pressing societal challenges

The repository brings together syllabi, lecture slides, assignments, and curated external links generously shared by colleagues across the field. You'll find course materials on sustainable marketing, marketing for a better world, marketplace diversity and inclusion, consumer poverty, the UN SDGs, social issues in marketing, and more, all contributed by TCR scholars from around the world.

Likewise, if you have a syllabus, an assignment, a slide deck, or a reading list that has worked well in your classroom, please consider sharing it. Submissions can be sent directly to Alexei Gloukhovtsev (alexei.gloukhovtsev@aalto.fi), Co-Chair of the TCR Education Council. Every contribution makes it easier for the next colleague to teach this material with confidence.

Check out: the Education Repository at: https://www.mytcr.org/teach

Email Alexei if you have education material you can contribute so that we can support the growth of TCR pedagogical perspectives: alexei.gloukhovtsev@aalto.fi

If you want more information on TCR or want to connect with us on our other social media platforms, visit our website - https://www.mytcr.org/ and for information on the upcoming 2027 TCR Dialogical Conference, check out: https://www.mytcr.org/2027-tcr-conference. Track submissions are due June 31st.