Victor H. Vroom (August 9, 1932,Montreal, Canada) is a business school professor at the Yale School of Management. He holds a PhD from University of Michigan.

Vroom's primary research was on the expectancy theory of motivation, which attempts to explain why individuals choose to follow certain courses of action in organizations, particularly in decision-making and leadership. His most well-known books are Work and Motivation, Leadership and Decision Making and The New Leadership. Vroom has also been a consultant to a number of corporations such as GE and American Express.

Victor Vroom was appointed Chairman of the Department of Administrative Sciences and associate Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale in 1972. Currently "Victor lives in Guilford, Connecticut, with his second wife, Julia Francis, and their two sons, Tristan and Trevor."

Expectancy theory was proposed by Vroom in 1964. It proposes that a person's behavior occurs because of expectations as to the outcomes of that behavior. At the core of the theory is an examination of the cognitive processes which lead to this behavioral outcome, looking at the different motivational elements that come into play.

Robert Jeffrey Sternberg is an American psychologist and psychometrician and Provost at Oklahoma State University. He was formerly the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University, and the President of the American Psychological Association. He is a member of the editorial boards of numerous journals, including American Psychologist. Sternberg has a BA from Yale University and a PhD from Stanford University. Gordon Bower was his PhD advisor. He holds ten honorary doctorates from one North American, one South American, and eight European universities, and additionally holds an honorary professorate at the University of Heidelberg, in Germany. He is currently also a Distinguished Associate of The Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge. Among his major contributions to psychology are the Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence, several influential theories related to creativity, wisdom, thinking styles, love and hate, and is the author of over 1000 articles, book chapters, and books. Sternberg is also a recognized professor of psychology. He currently is acting provost and Professor of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. (Oklahoma State University. 2010, March 24))