MDHI Business

The MD Harris Institute provides individual and organizational education and consultation on a wide range of concerns, including finance, operations, marketing, logistics, and leadership. Our team at MDHI specializes in helping small firms navigate the treacherous shoals of modern business. Organizations served include Memorial Baptist Church (WV), Kyiv Theological Seminary (KTS), Ukraine Baptist Theological Seminary (UBTS), Good Sports International (CO), Grounds Center (UA), Raleigh County Veterans and First Responders Museum (WV), Country Roads Band (WV), and the Beckley Concert Association (WV). Organizational types served include an English as a Second Language (ESL) and tech school, solar power station, internally displaced person (IDP) housing, construction company (new construction, renovation, community center, rental housing), car sales, agriculture, entertainment, disaster and emergency operations, and religion.

Best Business Practices for Churches and Small Religious Organizations

We help businesses and investors

• Analysis of business reports and required filings.
• Articles on business, money, and related topics.
• Cultural and religious diversity 
• Facility inspections, on site, to identify inefficiencies, and hazards, such as occupational health. 
• Financial valuation 
• Forecasting and analysis, US and global.
• Fund raising
• Investment project analysis (NPV, IRR)
• Leadership Development and Governance
• Lean Six Sigma process optimization (distribution, manufacturing, marketing, and supply chain)
• Research (quantitative and qualitative).

Many articles help business owners improve their operations, such as cutting costs and growing quality. In this era when good help is hard to find, the MDHI includes information on attracting and retaining talent. The MDHI advocates limiting government interference in commerce (and all other walks of life). We are concerned about justice in business operations. 

Shareholders, especially those holding minority interests, must be treated fairly. Management must not deceive or misuse the resources of investors and lenders. Communities should encourage public ownership of companies, in which key information about each company is available, and anyone can invest or divest at any time. Private ownership of large firms, the size of S&P 500 firms, should be uncommon because public information is limited and opportunities to invest are rare. Small and retail investors should have a chance to profit from large ccompanies.  

We help people, families, and communities.

The MDHI investment strategy includes active management using value criteria in a global, diversified, multimodal (stocks, bonds, futures, currencies, options, derivatives, etc.) portfolio. Investments are shaped by extensive use of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), artificial intelligence, and other investigatory techniques.

Our strategy emphasizes passive management for a majority of assets, maximizing diversification to minimize risk, especially company-specific risk. Vehicles include index funds and others. This strategy does not anticipate explosive growth but has been shown to provide consistent growth and relative safety. Options such as puts and calls (shorts) and vehicles such as derivatives are not recommended for most investors. 

Many articles detail the best ways to handle money. Our links go to groups that protect the poor and middle class from predation. For example, companies must not cut off financial services to individuals or to organizations like fossil fuel companies or churches simply because those people or groups may be unpopular (debanking). 

Conclusion

“For where a man’s treasure is, there is his heart also.” the MDHI helps followers of Christ, and those who do not yet know Him, manage their money, their careers, and their businesses in ways that glorify God and sustain man. Contact us at mdharrisinstitute@gmail.com for information.

This is not financial advice, and you should not rely on this analysis to buy or sell any stock. We are not undertaking to induce you to buy or sell any securities. We are relying on the “publisher’s exclusion” in the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to provide this information without any personalized or individualized investment advice. MDHI is an educational and consultative group and not a brokerage or appraisal firm. We do not provide SEC-regulated investment recommendations. We are not certified appraisers. Neither the MDHI nor anyone affiliated with it are registered with the SEC.

MDHI articles may contain statements which, to the extent they are not statements of historical or present fact, constitute “forward-looking statements” under the securities laws.