What are the main causes for failure of immigrant-owned businesses?

Joyce Moy (Executive Director, AAARI at CUNY)


Dr. Joyce Moy explains what she believes are the main reasons that immigrant small business fail including a lack of differentiation in the type of businesses being offered so that the older businesses are often forced out of business due to lack of capital. She provides her thoughts on how community organizations can assist would be entrepreneurs to come up with business plans that make sense for their communities before they launch their business concern.

Joyce Moy

Executive Director, Asian American/Asian Research Institute at CUNY Joyce O. Moy is an attorney and has practiced law for more than 20 years, specializing in business transactions and taxation. She is the former executive director of business and community development at LaGuardia Community College and currently is executive director of the Asian American/Asian Research Institute of the City University of New York (CUNY)

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Joyce Moy

Executive Director, Asian American/Asian Research Institute at CUNY

Joyce O. Moy is an attorney and has practiced law for more than 20 years, specializing in business transactions and taxation. She is the former executive director of business and community development at LaGuardia Community College and currently is executive director of the Asian American/Asian Research Institute of the City University of New York (CUNY)

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Prior to that, she worked as a Management Consultant in the finance industry in New York City. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Management with a concentration in Finance and her Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology.

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