"They would mutually influence one another, " says Ms. Kress, adding that both positions have influenced her work at Goldsmiths College in London, where she is getting a Master's in contemporary art theory.

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A., Beguir, 26, got a master's degree in the obscure art of financial mathematics (also called financial engineering).

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But in more consequential situations he was an instinctive master of the art.

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The heads of private equity giants KKR ( KKR), Apollo Global Management ( APO) and The Blackstone Group ( BX) all earned their stripes and built buyout skills working in the investment banking units of Wall Street mainstays before breaking out to master the art of the buyout.

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By the time the clarion call was sounded by the Museum of Modern Art's "Modern Architecture" show in 1932, he had become a master of the International style.

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