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The coronavirus pandemic brought rapid changes all over the world. Under these circumstances, Ukrainian businesses faced a wide range of complex challenges as well: in revising their business models, finding creative solutions, and rebuild communication with their clients and employees. And Kyiv-Mohyla Business School is not an exception.

We are living undoubtedly one of the world's darkest hours. There is pain among many and confusion among most of us. I will focus on this feeling of confusion during this article.

I listen to the pulse of life in my own family, in the immediate environment, in my country and in the whole world. It is certainly unsettling - first, and foremost, due to the uncertainty that is plaguing the majority of the people on our planet who have been gripped by the unpredictable aftermath of a terrible virus. I am rethinking and trying to develop a system of personal perception of what is happening and of adequate conscious actions.

On April 10, 2020 CEEMAN and IEDC-Bled School of Management received a donation of 700 face masks from a CEEMAN member School of Management, Zhejiang University (SOM ZJU) in Hangzhou, China, of which some were personally donated by the Dean Prof. Jiang Wei, and Associate Dean for Research and International Affairs Prof. Weihua Zhou.

As Coronavirus causes the usual delivery of programmes around the world to be disrupted, we at The Case Centre are working hard to support the case community through this period of uncertainty. We appreciate that making the move to teaching online quickly will be a huge challenge for many, both technically and pedagogically.

If we had been asked a month ago whether we at CBS International Business School could switch to online teaching within a week, we would have laughed out loud. But we did it! In just one week, we succeeded in turning our entire teaching process upside down! In the first two weeks, we were able to offer its students over 800 online lectures – and the lecture hall moved to the living room.

Emerald's biggest concern was making sure staff were kept as safe as possible as well as helping publish and disseminate research relating to coronavirus and outbreaks in general, as freely, quickly and simply as possible, while continuing to work on standard publication outputs. Cases publisher Gabi Rundle explains the work Emerald are doing during this outbreak, particularly on the cases products.

Early this year the COVID-19 outbreak seemed too distant to worry. The Ukrainian Government imposed quarantine measures on March 12. The MIM-Kyiv decided to move online. It took only three days to restart the activities.

We are happy to welcome a new institutional member to CEEMAN community. Lodz University of Technology (TUL), established 75 years ago, is the only university of technology in the region and one of the best universities in Poland.

Poznań University of Economics and Business (PUEB) response to the threat has been based on three principles: the safety of students and employees as the priority, quick and decisive action, open and clear communication. Below, mainly the organization of the work has been described. Though, at present, the main focus is on dealing with current challenges, lessons for the future “after the coronavirus” should be drawn.