Aspiring MBA students should consider these following jobs, which offer robust job growth, generous salaries and low unemployment rates, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The careers on this list rank among U.S. News' Best Business Jobs for 2017. (U.S. News & World Report)

A banner year for billionaires has lifted the fortunes of female moguls around the globe. An all-time high of 2043 people made the ranks of FORBES’ World's Billionaires, 227 of whom are women -- a jump from last year’s 202 and a record for women billionaires. They make up 11% of the list and have a collective net worth of $852.8 billion. The majority of the richest women in the world inherited their money. (Forbes)

No billionaire has had a better year than Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Bezos is the biggest dollar gainer on the 2017 World’s Billionaires List, in a year when 56% of billionaires saw their fortunes increase. Bezos' net worth jumped by $27.6 billion in the past year -- more than the total net worth of all but the 24 richest billionaires. Amazon stock climbed 67% in the past year in part because of the success of its cloud-computing unit, Amazon Web Services. (Forbes)

Do you often find your workday spiraling out of control? You start each day with a plan to get so much done, but soon find yourself becoming distracted, focusing on low-priority tasks and, simply, procrastinating. So how can you regain control of your time? One-size-fits-all lists on how to be more productive don't work; we’ll outline productivity techniques that can be adapted to your personality and working style. (The New York Times)

Résumé "whitening" or deleting clear identifiers of race or ethnicity might improve your chances of getting a callback, but who wants to work for an employer who would discriminate against you because of your name? However, if you feel your name is impeding your chances of having your résumé land in a hiring manager’s lap, here are five things you should consider. (Black Enterprise)

The MPW Insiders Network is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for, "How can you find career support outside of your friends and family?" is written by Sharon Price John, CEO of Build-A-Bear Workshop. (Fortune)

A workplace diversity study done by the University of Florida defines diversity as "acknowledging, understanding, accepting, and valuing differences among people with respect to age, class, race, ethnicity, gender, disabilities, etc." Ronaldo Hardy said it’s important for credit union leaders to take a look at the culture they’ve created, and does that culture support two things: candor and compassion. (Credit Union Times)

Every time a diversity training or workshop occurs, management automatically assigns me or my other minority colleague to participate or lead, while our white colleagues are instructed to participate only after our initial prep work has taken place. (The Washington Post)

Shachi Irde, Vice President and Executive Director at Catalyst India WRC, shares research to prove that it really pays to have gender diversity at the workplace. (Femina)

Airbnb is arriving late to the China party. The short-term rental startup paid little attention to the world's most populous country for years. But it's now stepping up efforts to appeal to China's growing ranks of young people with money to spend on travel. (CNN Money)

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been a safe haven for Black students to express themselves without judgement from their white counterparts. In fact, Shirley Caswell wrote in the Washington Post that a 2015 Gallup report measured five elements of well-being — social, purpose, financial, community and physical — and found that black HBCU graduates were "thriving" to a greater degree, in all categories, than their black counterparts who attended other institutions. The gap was largest in financial well-being. Black HBCU grads also felt that their colleges better prepared them for life after graduation (55 percent) than Black graduates who attended other institutions (29 percent). (Afro American Newspapers)

Sponsored by the National Black MBA Association Austin Chapter, the HBCU Battle of the Brains brought together the best and brightest undergraduate and graduate students from HBCUs around the country to showcase their talent while competing for cash awards and the title of 2017 champion. The HBCU Battle of the Brains — a hybrid of a "Hackathon" and a "Case Competition" — challenged the teams of students to develop a solution to a complex issue then pitch that solution in front of judges and a live audience.

The stunning advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning has brought advances in society. These technologies have improved medicine and how quickly doctors can diagnose disease, for example. IBM’s AI platform Watson helps reduce water waste in drought stricken areas. AI even entertains us—the more you use Netflix, the more it learns what your viewing preferences are and makes suggestions based on what you like to watch. However, there is a very dark side to AI, and it’s worrying many social scientists and some in the tech industry. These people say it’s even more troublesome that AI and machine learning are advancing so fast during these current times. (Black Enterprise)

A lot of bad and sexist stuff is happening in the tech sector these days, but one glimmer of hope comes from Stack Overflow's annual developer survey. The report queried 64,000 professionals about the state of the developer industry and found that 10% of the respondents identified as women. While that's still disturbingly low, it is a marked uptick from the last year's responses, which was at 6.6%. What's more, writes Stack Overflow, "nearly twice the number of women said they had been coding for less than a year." This indicates that the pool of female developers worldwide is perhaps growing, which is heartening. (Fast Company)

J.D. Vance, a California venture capitalist who wrote best-selling memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," said Wednesday he has joined Revolution, a D.C. investment firm co-founded by Washington-area business leaders Steve Case, Ted Leonsis and Donn Davis. Vance plans to scout for promising technology companies as part of Revolution’s "Rise of the Rest" campaign, an initiative to invest in promising technology companies outside of established urban tech hubs. (The Washington Post)

It had been one of Wall Street’s more confounding streaks.Until Tuesday morning, the stock market’s benchmark, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, had gone 64 consecutive trading days without declining more than 1 percent at any point in a trading session.(The New York Times)

But there’s another theory that deserves mentioning, especially because it fits with recent research about the declining health outcomes among American men. That theory suggests that American men are dropping out of the workforce because they are suffering from serious health conditions that make it difficult for them to work. As their health deteriorates, they’re getting on pain medications, which then make it even more difficult to re-enter the workforce. (The Atlantic)

Fifty-two of the 100 largest U.S. cities were majority-renter in 2015, according to U.S. Census Bureau data compiled for Bloomberg by real estate brokerage Redfin. Twenty-one of those cities have shifted to renter-domination since 2009. These include such hot housing markets as Denver and San Diego and lukewarm locales, such as Detroit and Baltimore, better known for vacant homes than residential development. (Bloomberg)

If you’re obsessed with HGTV, remodeling and regularly use phrases like "reclaimed wood" and "farmhouse feel," you’ve probably kicked around the idea of buying investment property. The popular TV niche has given birth to a group of people who are motivated to improve their incomes with do-it-yourself projects and tenants in tow. While it may seem simple and fulfilling on the small screen, buying rental property carries the same risks as purchasing your primary home. (USA TODAY)