July 18 (Bloomberg) -- The University of California, Berkeley's business school named Richard K. Lyons, chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. until earlier this month, as its dean.

Lyons was in charge of training for managing directors and partners at New York-based Goldman Sachs, according to a university statement. Lyons was a professor at Berkeley's Haas School of Business since 1993, and worked at Goldman Sachs for almost two years while on leave from the university, he said in a telephone interview today.

Lyons, who was Haas' acting dean in 2004 and 2005, said he will oversee an expansion of the school's full-time research faculty to 85 from 74 during the next three years, and will plan for the school's fourth building.

``We are small relative to other business schools, and we've seen a lot of growth in our programs, a lot of demand for what we do,'' Lyons, 47, said. His appointment was effective July 1.

Lyons succeeds Thomas Campbell, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California. Campbell, dean since 2002, will return to teaching, the university said.

The Haas School was founded in 1898 and is the second-oldest business school in the U.S., the university said. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia is the oldest. The Haas School is ranked seventh by U.S. News and World Report, with the business schools of Harvard and Stanford universities tied for first.

Graduates of the Haas School include Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe Systems Inc., the computer-software company based in San Jose, California.

Studying Leadership

Lyons earned an undergraduate degree at Berkeley and a doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. His initial specialty was international exchange rates. As acting dean and in his position at Goldman Sachs, he became interested in what he calls ``growth leadership.''

``Where does growth come from in firms? How is it linked to the leadership capacity of the firm? And how do we augment that capacity? That was our focus at Goldman Sachs, and it was very exciting to execute on that,'' he said.

Lyons said his position at Goldman Sachs was ``indefinite,'' and he was planning to remain there until the dean's position was offered to him.

``I was there to stay and I was loving it,'' he said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Kladko in Boston at bkladko@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: July 18, 2008 16:03 EDT