He is Leeds Professor of Management and Co-Director, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship.
He was the Dean of the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University from August 1, 1999 to June 30, 2010.
In the 1990s Cosier was dean of the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma.
[1] He was the 2008-2009 chair of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business in Tampa, Florida.
He will retain his position as Leeds Professor of Management and became the Avrum and Joyce Gray Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship at Purdue beginning January 1, 2011 following a six-month sabbatical in the fall of 2010.