Case Study: Harvard University achieves streamlined student organization and event coordination with Asana

Harvard University - Customer Case Study

Asana, a task‑management platform, helped Harvard student Peter Boyce solve the common campus challenge of coordinating a student group while juggling classes, deadlines, and personal commitments. Starting with the Hack Harvard accelerator, he found Google Docs and Yammer inadequate for tracking many small tasks and assigning ownership across a team, so he needed a lightweight, task‑focused tool to organize events, coursework, and admin duties.

By using Asana workspaces, project headings, tags, calendar integration, and file attachments, Peter centralized assignments, deadlines, and event logistics in one place. The platform cut down on meetings and email clutter, let the team distribute work for large events like Evening of Ventures and Hack Week (140+ attendees), saved time, kept his academic workload visible, and is now part of his professional workflow after graduation.

Harvard University