Musser Excellence In Leadership Award
About the Musser Awards
The
Musser Award for Excellence in Leadership honors outstanding achievement
and service by a distinguished member of the business community. It is
the highest honor Temple University’s Fox School affords and recognizes
the ideal of leadership as exceptional individual accomplishments that
also benefit the larger community. It promotes the ethic, personified
by the Award’s inaugural recipient Warren V. (Pete) Musser, that
exceptional achievement by those seeking business success and exceptional
effort on behalf of the community are compatible, mutually supportive
goals.
Pete Musser has combined entrepreneurial spirit with a collaborative style based on investment in people and creative ideas. As founder of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. in 1953 and as its leader for nearly four decades, he formed numerous technology-oriented companies that helped create the Greater Philadelphia region’s reputation for technological innovation.
He has supported and led many community and charitable causes, including the Safeguard Scientifics Center for Economic Education at Temple. The Center brings business, economic and entrepreneurial education to K-12 teachers and students throughout the region and the state.